Sol Stein
(1926-2019) Novelist, playwright. Sol Stein was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Tarrytown, New York.
County: Bronx
Judith Merril
(1923-1997) Writer, editor. Judith Merril was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jim Bouton
(1939-2019) Author. Jim Bouton was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Mansfield
(1925-2003) Playwright, novelist. Elizabeth Mansfield was a pseudonym for Paula Schwartz. She was born in New York City. She also used the name Paula Reibel.
Murray Gell-Mann
(1929-2019) Author. Murray Gell-Mann was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jay Richard Kennedy
(1911-1991) Writer. Jay Richard Kennedy was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Morton Sobell
(1917-2019) Author. Morton Sobell was born in and died in Manhattan, New York.
Leonard Dinnerstein
(1934-2019) Author, historian, scholar. Leonard Dinnerstein was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Tucson, Arizona.
Izzy Young
(1928-2019) Author. Izzy Young was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the proprietor of the Folklore Center, a shop in Greenwich Village.
Heidi Toffler
(1929-2019) Researcher, editor, author. Heidi Toffler grew up in the Bronx, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California.