(1929-1982) Screenwriter, playwright. Howard Sackler was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Ibiza, Spain. Mr. Sackler was a gratdate of Brooklyn College and the winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for drama for “The Great White Hope.”
(1918-2015) Rev. Gardner C. Taylor was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and died in Durham, North Carolina. He was senior pastor of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York, for forty-two years. He authored several books and 2,000 sermons.
(1925-2015) Author. Irving Singer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Brighton, Massachusetts.
(1928-2015) Poet. Philip Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in Fresno, California. He served as United States poet laureate from 2011 to 2012. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his collection “The Simple Truth”.
(1946-2015) Songwriter. Lesley Gore was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. She lived in New York City.
(1924-2015) Author. John P. Craven was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Hawaii. He was a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School and attended Cornell University for officer training.
(1986-2013) Author. Aaron Swartz was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Brooklyn, New York.
(1931-2014) Author. David H. Marlowe was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Silver Spring, Maryland.
(1934-2014) Poet. Mark Strand was born in Summerside on Prince Edward Island in Canada, and died in Brooklyn, New York. He was named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1990-1991 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999.
(1943-2014) Author. Juan Flores was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and died in Durham, North Carolina. He lived in Brooklyn, New York.