Anne McCaffrey
(1926-2011) Author. Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died in County Wicklow, Ireland. Ms. McCaffrey’s family moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island, in 1965, and lived there for a time.
County: Nassau
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
(1940-2011) Novelist. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Chicago, Illinois.
Dick Wimmer
(1936-2011) Writer. Dick Wimmer was born in New York City and died in Agoura Hills, California.
William Allen Rusher
(1923-2011) Author. William Rusher was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in San Francisco, California. He attended schools on Long Island and in New York City.
Ellie Greenwich
(1940-2009) Songwriter. Ellie Greenwich was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. She wrote or co-wrote many songs, including “Be My Baby,” “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Leader of the Pack,” “Do Wah Diddy Diddy,” and “River Deep, Mountain High.”
Dietrich Von Bothmer
(1918-2009) Historian. Dietrich Von Bothmer was born in Eisenach, Germany, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill
(1863-1915) Poet. Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill was born in Hempstead, New York, but lived in France and wrote mostly in the French language.
Leila Hadley
(c.1925-2009) Writer. Leila Hadley authored travel books and lived in Manhattan, New York.
Gerald E Myers
(1923-2009) Writer. Gerald Myers was born in Central City, Nebraska, and died in New London, Connecticut.
Ren Shields
(1868-1913) Songwriter. Ren Shields lived in Massapequa, Long Island, New York.