Marty Glickman
(1917-2001) Author. Marty Glickman was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was best known as a sports announcer, but he authored an autobiography with Stan Isaacs.
County: Kings
James Truslow Adams
(1878-1949) Historian, writer. James Truslow Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Westport, Connecticut.
Herbert Blau
(1926-2013) Author. Herbert Blau was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Seattle, Washington.
Stanley Isaacs
(1929-2013) Writer. Stan Isaacs was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, and died in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was a reporter for Newsday and wrote the column Out Of Left Field.
Robert Eugene Byrne
(1928-2013) Writer. Robert Byrne was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Ossining, New York. He was the chess columnist for The New York Times from 1972 to 2006.
(Michael) Mickey Rose
(1935-2013) Writer. Mickey Rose was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, and died in Beverly Hills, California. Mr. Rose was a writer for the “Dean Martin Show” and contributed stories to “All in the Family”, “The Odd Couple” and “Too Close For Comfort”.
Thomas Picton (Milner)
(1822-1891) Journalist, author. Thomas Picton was born in 1822 and died in 1891. He was founder and editor of the True American. Some of his work was written under the pseudonyms Paul Preston and A. Gothamite.
Leland Pitts-Gonzalez
Leland studied Creative Writing and Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. He eventually earned an MFA in Writing from Columbia University on a merit fellowship. He has published fiction in Open City, Fence, Dark Sky Magazine, Drunken Boat, and Monkey Bicycle, among other literary journals. He is also the project director for a literary … Continued
Rabbi David Hartman
(1931-2013) Writer. Rabbi David Hartman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Jerusalem, Israel.
Joseph Frank
(1918-2013) Biographer. Joseph Frank was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Palo Alto, California.