Editing Frenchtown, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Frenchtown, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Frenchtown include:

* [[James Agee]] (1909–1955), author, editor and poet who lived in Frenchtown (on Second Street in what is now the police station) with second wife Alma from 1938 to 1939 and wrote ''[[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men]]'' during that time<ref>[http://www.ageefilms.org/ageebio.html James Agee (1909-1955) Chronology of his Life and Work] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027224319/http://www.ageefilms.org/ageebio.html |date=October 27, 2018 }}, Agee Films. Accessed July 9, 2014. "1938 Spring - Moves to 27 Second Street, Frenchtown, New Jersey."</ref><ref>Madden, David; and Folks, Jeffrey Jay. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qcSQQUnsInEC&pg=PA66 ''Remembering James Agee''], p. 66. [[University of Georgia Press]], 1997. {{ISBN|9780820319131}}. Accessed April 25, 2016.</ref>
* [[Elizabeth Gilbert]] (born 1969), author of ''[[Eat Pray Love (book)|Eat, Pray, Love]]''<ref>Rich, Motoko. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/books/20book.html "Eat, Pray, Love. Then What? Get Married."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 19, 2009. Accessed November 14, 2012. "'It is and isn't a sequel,' Ms. Gilbert said in a telephone interview from near their home in Frenchtown, N.J."</ref>
* [[Shea Hembrey]] (born 1974), conceptual artist<ref>Corbett, Sara. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/magazine/shea-hembrey.html "One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 16, 2011. Accessed August 21, 2013. "Shea Hembrey is tall and lanky with a wispy beard and dark hair that flops boyishly to either side of his face. He was born and reared in rural Arkansas, but these days he lives in the hamlet of Frenchtown, N.&nbsp;J., in the second-story apartment of a well-kept Victorian cottage on a street filled with the same."</ref>
* [[Lois Hunt]] (1925–2009), soprano opera singer who toured for decades with baritone [[Earl Wrightson]]<ref>[[William Grimes (journalist)|Grimes, William]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/arts/music/28hunt.html "Lois Hunt, Half of Popular Operatic Duo, Dies at 84"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 28, 2009. Accessed November 14, 2012. "Lois Hunt, whose operatic lyric soprano blended seamlessly with Earl Wrightson's baritone in a partnership that lasted nearly 40 years and brought the classics of the American musical theater to audiences through concerts, tent musicals and record albums, died Sunday in Manhattan. She was 84 and lived in Frenchtown, N.J."</ref>
* [[Anne Kursinski]] (born 1959), top [[show jumping]] competitor<ref>Cosdon, Christina K. [http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/30/Sports/Kappler_lands_2nd_Inv.shtml "Kappler lands 2nd Invitational"], ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]'', March 30, 2003. Accessed August 12, 2007. "Anne Kursinski, 43, of Frenchtown, N.J., and Eros placed third for $26,000."</ref>
* [[Harvey Spencer Lewis]] (1883–1939), [[Rosicrucian]] author, occultist and mystic<ref>[http://www.experiencefestival.com/harvey_spencer_lewis_-_introduction Harvey Spencer Lewis - Introduction]. The Global Oneness Commitment. Accessed June 2, 2008.</ref>
* [[J. Linus McAtee]] (1897–1963), thoroughbred horse racing jockey<ref>[[John Kieran|Kieran, John]]. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/03/23/98326226.pdf "Sports of the Times; The Golfer on Horseback."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 23, 1931. Accessed November 14, 2012. "'I'm 32 years old. Be 33 in October. Born Oct. 5, 1898, at a place called Frenchtown in New Jersey, but we moved to Baltimore when I was pretty small.'"</ref>
* [[Barb Morrison]] (born 1967), songwriter and record producer<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/transgender-today/stories/barb-morrison "Transgender Today: barb morrison"], ''[[The New York Times]]''. Accessed April 25, 2016. "record producer from Frenchtown, N.J."</ref>
* [[Billy Pauch]] (born 1957), race car driver<ref>Staff. [http://www.nj.com/sports/times/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/1240805122287670.xml&coll=5 "Pauch wins for the 72nd time at NES"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006082940/http://www.nj.com/sports/times/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/1240805122287670.xml&coll=5 |date=October 6, 2012 }}, ''[[The Times of Trenton]]'', April 27, 2009. Accessed July 28, 2009. "Billy Pauch of Frenchtown proved just why he is the all-time leading winner at the New Egypt Speedway."</ref>
* [[Anna Pump]] (1934–2015), [[chef]], [[cookbook]] author, [[baker]], and innkeeper famous for her bakery in [[The Hamptons]], Loaves & Fishes<ref>Weber, Bruce. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/nyregion/anna-pump-chef-and-founder-of-loaves-fishes-dies-at-81.html "Anna Pump, Chef and Author Famed for Hamptons Store, Dies at 81"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 9, 2015. Accessed October 10, 2015. "She married Detlef Pump, who became a master stonemason, shortly after graduating from school, and they immigrated to the United States in 1960, settling in Frenchtown, N.J. They moved to the Hamptons in the late 1970s, after spending a two-week vacation there."</ref>
* [[Nathanael West]] (1903–1940), novelist, screenwriter and satirist, author of ''[[Miss Lonelyhearts]]'' and ''[[The Day of the Locust]]'', boarded at the Frenchtown Inn during the 1930s<ref>Bucks County and the Delaware Valley Alive, Hunter Publishing, 2010.</ref>