Fitz-Greene Halleck, once dubbed "The America Byron" is most notable now for his inclusion in the "Literary Walk" on the Mall in New York's Central Park - an honor only shared by Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, and Shakespeare. The Fitz-Greene Halleck society is dedicated to the memory (or rather the memory of the forgetting) of this one time literary titan. The Society will commemorate the fickle nature of fame every July 8th (Halleck's birthday) by gathering at his statue in Central Park. His works will be read aloud, and offerings left - with special honor given to objects related to failure and scorn by one's contemporaries - especially in the field of letters. "No name in the American poetical world is more firmly established than that of Fitz-Greene Halleck."—Edgar Allan Poe Respectfully submitted, Kenan Minkoff President of the Fitz-Greene Halleck Society |
| The Fitz-Greene Halleck Society |
| © 2007 Kenan Minkoff |
| Read Halleck's entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography® |
| Fame is fleeting; obscurity is forever - Napoleon |
| One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. - from "Marco Bozzaris" by Fitz-Greene Halleck |