Editing Redding, Connecticut (section)

==Notable people==
{{main list|List of people from Redding, Connecticut}}
In part due to its relative proximity to New York City,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/redding-twains-last-home-is-proud-of-privacy-1397264537|title=Redding, Twain's Last Home, Is Proud of Privacy|last=Lefkowitz|first=Melanie|date=April 14, 2014|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=August 14, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> many famous people have lived in Redding.

Actors and directors who have resided in Redding include [[Hope Lange]],<ref name="history" /> [[Barry Levinson]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001469/bio|title=Barry Levinson|website=IMDb|access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> [[Jessica Tandy]] and her spouse [[Hume Cronyn]],<ref name="history" /> and [[Christopher Walken]].

Artists who have lived in Redding include [[Dan Beard]], whose illustrations appeared in books authored by Mark Twain;<ref name="history">{{cite web | title=An Impressive List of Individuals Who Have Called Redding Home | website=History of Redding, Connecticut (CT) Past & Present | url=http://www.historyofredding.net/HRfamouspeople.htm | access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> [[Anna Hyatt Huntington]], who lived on the property that today is [[Collis P. Huntington State Park]];<ref>{{cite book|last=Cullen-DuPont|first=Kathryn|title=Encyclopedia of Women's History in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oIro7MtiFuYC&pg=PA120|date=May 14, 2014|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-1033-2|page=120}}</ref> and photographer [[Edward Steichen]], who purchased a farm that he called Umpawaug.<ref name="Niven 1997 530">Niven, Penelope (1997). ''Steichen: A Biography''. New York: Clarkson Potter. {{ISBN|0-517-59373-4}}, p. 530</ref> living there until his death in 1973.<ref name="Niven 1997 698">Niven (1997), p. 698</ref> Steichen's property became Topstone Park,<ref name="NYT 1999">Prevost, Lisa, the ''New York Times'', "An Upscale Town With Upcountry Style," January 3, 1999</ref> open seasonally to this day.<ref name="Redding parks">{{cite web | title=Topstone Park | website=townofreddingct.org | date=June 28, 2011 | url=http://www.townofreddingct.org:80/Public_Documents/ReddingCT_ParksRec/facilities/top | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628063755/http://www.townofreddingct.org:80/Public_Documents/ReddingCT_ParksRec/facilities/top | archive-date=June 28, 2011 | url-status=dead | access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref>

Athletes who have lived in Redding include [[Charlie Morton (pitcher)|Charlie Morton]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Barlow Hall of Fame inducts 19. | website=The Redding Pilot | date=November 30, 2015 | url=http://www.thereddingpilot.com/2015/11/30/barlow-hall-of-fame-inducts-19/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324094132/http://www.thereddingpilot.com/2015/11/30/barlow-hall-of-fame-inducts-19/ | archive-date=March 24, 2017 | url-status=dead | access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> a pitcher for the [[Atlanta Braves]]; and [[Brooklee Han]], a figure skater who represented Australia in the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] in [[Sochi, Russia]].

[[File:Mark Twain's house, front view. - NARA - 516527.tif|left|thumb|Clemens' house, "Stormfield", in Redding, Connecticut]]
Authors who have lived in Redding include [[Joel Barlow]],<ref>{{cite book | title=Barlow, Joel (1754-1812), businessman, diplomat, and poet | website=American National Biography | date=June 16, 2017 | doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1600077 | isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 | url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1600077 | access-date=August 14, 2019| last1=Mulford | first1=Carla J. }}</ref> a poet and diplomat, born in town; [[Samuel Clemens]], who in 1908 moved into a mansion dubbed [[Stormfield]] that was built on land located on present-day Mark Twain Lane and lived there until his death in 1910; [[Howard Fast]];<ref name="history" /> [[Lawrence Kudlow]], author and host of the "Kudlow and Company" television program;<ref>{{cite web | title=Larry Kudlow to speak at annual breakfast - The Redding Pilot | website=thereddingpilot.com | date=October 25, 2014 | url=http://www.thereddingpilot.com/15825/larry-kudlow-speak-annual-breakfast/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025160355/http://www.thereddingpilot.com/15825/larry-kudlow-speak-annual-breakfast/ | archive-date=October 25, 2014 | url-status=dead | access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> [[Dick Morris]], political consultant and author; [[Flannery O'Connor]] (who wrote her novel ''[[Wise Blood]]'' while a boarder at the home of fellow writer [[Robert Fitzgerald]]);,<ref>{{cite web | title=When Flannery O'Connor didn't live here | website=The Ridgefield Press | date=April 30, 2014 | url=http://www.theridgefieldpress.com/16949/when-flannery-oconnor-didnt-live-here/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430024622/http://www.theridgefieldpress.com/16949/when-flannery-oconnor-didnt-live-here/ | archive-date=April 30, 2014 | url-status=dead | access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> futurist [[Alvin Toffler]]<ref>{{cite news| url= http://westport.dailyvoice.com/neighbors/happy-birthday-to-reddings-alvin-toffler/405405/ | title= Happy Birthday To Redding's Alvin Toffler!| work= Westport Daily Voice| location= Weston, Connecticut| date= October 4, 2013| access-date= May 4, 2016}}</ref> and economist [[Stuart Chase]], who lived in Redding from 1930 and served on the town's planning commission from 1956 until his death in 1985.<ref>http://stevenlewis.info/gs/Stuart_Chase_bio.htm | Stuart Chase -- A Biography | accessed March 15, 2020</ref>

Businesspeople who have lived in Redding include [[Alfred Winslow Jones]], credited by some as "the father" of the [[hedge fund]] industry.<ref name="history" />

Composers, musicians and singers who have lived in Redding include [[Leonard Bernstein]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Gottlieb|first=Jack|title=Working with Bernstein: A Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWXHOCMpM74C&pg=PA33|year=2010|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-186-5|page=33}}</ref> [[Daryl Hall]],<ref name="history" /> [[Jascha Heifetz]],<ref name="history" /> [[Charles Ives]],<ref name="history" /> [[Meat Loaf]], [[Andy Powell]] and [[Mary Travers]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/arts/music/17travers.html|title=Mary Travers, Singer of Protest Anthems, Dies at 72|last=Grimes|first=William|date=September 16, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 14, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>