Harold Morowitz
(1927-2016) Author. Harold Morowitz was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and died in Falls Church, Virginia.
County: Dutchess
Steven Vogel
(1940-2015) Author. Steven Vogel was born in Beacon, New York, and died in Durham, North Carolina.
John Henry Holland
(1929-2015) Author. John Henry Holland was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He worked for a year and a half at IBM’s main research laboratory in Poughkeepsie, New York.
(Elwyn) Wynn Moody Chamberlain
(1927-2014) Novelist. Wynn Chamberlain was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died in New Delhi, India.
Pete Seeger
(1919-2014) Songwriter. Pete Seeger was born in and died in Manhattan, New York.
William Weaver
(1923-2013) Translator. William Weaver was probably born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Rhinebeck, New York.
Leslie Land
(1947-2013) Writer. Leslie Land was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and died in Poughkeepsie, New York. She wrote a newspaper column “Good Food” for 20 years and more than 500 articles for The New York Times.
Chinua Achebe
(1930-2013) Author. Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He taught at Bard College from about 1991 until 2009.
Norman Vincent Peale
(1898-1993) Writer. Norman Vincent Peale was born in Bowersville, Ohio, and died in Pawling, New York. He wrote The Power Of Positive Thinking.
Wye Jamison Allanbrook
(1943-2010) Writer. Wye Jamison Allanbrook was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, and died in Oakland California.