(1922-2021) Art collector, art patron, memoirist. Wilhelmina Cole Holladay was born in Elmira, New York, and died in Washington, District of Columbia. She established the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, District of Columbia.
(1923-2018) Historian. Richard Pipes was born in Cieszyn, Poland, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(1917-2013) Writer. Fay Kanin was born in New York, and died in Santa Monica, California. She was a screenwriter and playwright. She collaborated with her husband, Michael Kanin, on many screenplays.
(1925-2005) Journalist. Was a student at Columbia University and friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; he stabbed and killed David Kammerer in 1944.
(c.1811-1852) Writer. Frances Miriam (Berry) Whitcher was born and died in the Town of Whitestown, New York.
Writer, publisher. “Gazette,” “The Gannett Company,” owned a half-interest in the Elmira newspaper. Born in Bristol, lived and died in Rochester.
(c.1916-2006) Writer, poet. Ellen S. Tifft was born, lived, and died in Elmira, New York.
Member libraries: Big Flats Library, Horseheads Free Library, Steele Memorial Library, Van Etten Library, and West Elmira Library.