Joan Wile
(1931-2018) Author. Joan Wile was born in Rochester, New York, and died in Nanuet, New York.
County: Monroe
Hayden White
(1928-2018) Author. Hayden White was born in Martin, Tennessee, and died in Santa Cruz, California.
Jack Keil
(1922-2017) Author. Jack Keil was born in Rochester, New York, and died in Westminster West, Vermont.
Edith Shiffert
(1916-2017) Poet. Edith Shiffert was born in Toronto, Canada, and died in Kyoto, Japan. As a child, she lived for a time in Rochester, New York.
Brock Yates
(1933-2016) Writer, journalist. Brock Yates was born in Lockport, New York, and died in Batavia, New York. He authored several books and also wrote for The Washington Post, Playboy, and The American Spectator.
Kate Light
(????-2016) Librettist, Lyricist, poet. Kate Light lived in New York City.
Donald Weinstein
(1926-2015) Historian. Donald Weinstein was born in Rochester, New York, and died in Tucson, Arizona.
Marcia Joan Brown
(1918-2015) Author. Marcia Brown was born in Rochester, New York, and died in Laguna Hills, California. She won three Caldecott Medals.
John Curtis Chamberlain
(1772-1834) John Curtis Chamberlain was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and died in Utica, New York. He wrote a series of essays as The Hermit which appeared for a year or more in “The Farmer’s Museum” beginning in the summer of 1796.
Galway Mills Kinnell
(1927-2014) Poet. Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Sheffield, Vermont. He received a master’s degree from the University of Rochester.