(1911-2014) Novelist. Bel Kaufman was born in Berlin, Germany, and died in Manhattan, New York. She was a schoolteacher in New York City for many years. She was the daughter of the writer, Lyalya Kaufman, and the granddaughter of the novelist and playwright, Sholem Aleichem.
(1924-2014) Critic, editor. Arthur Gelb was born in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He worked for The New York Times from 1944 as a copy boy to 1989 as managing editor.
(1930-2014) Author. Sherwin B. Nuland was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Hamden, Connecticut.
(1927-2014) Author. Murray L. Weidenbaum was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the author of “Advising Reagan: Making Economic Policy, 1981-82.”
(1929-2014) Author. James R. Schlesinger was born in New York City and died in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the author of “America At Century’s End.”
(1922-2013) Writer. Chana Mlotek was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in the Bronx, New York. She and her husband, Joseph Mlotek, wrote a column called “Pearls of Yiddish Poetry” for more than 43 years for the Jewish newspaper The Forward’s Yiddish edition.
(1925-2013) Writer. Martin L. Gross grew up in the Bronx, New York. He died in Ocala, Florida, on August 21, 2013.
(1928-2013) Historian. George Stocking Jr. was born in Berlin, Germany, and died in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Horace-Mann Lincoln School in the Bronx, New York, in 1944.
(1907-2003) Cartoonist. William Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
(1927-2013) Author. Lawrence Fuchs was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Canton, Massachusetts.