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County: New York

Jesse Lasky Jr

(1910-1988) Screenwriter, novelist, playwright, poet. Jesse Lasky Jr. was born in New York City and died in London, England.

Samuel Fuller

(1912-1997) Screenwriter, novelist. Samuel Fuller was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. When he was only 12 years old, he worked in Manhattan, New York, as a newspaper copy boy. He died in Los Angeles, California.

Paul Kolton

(1923-2010) Writer. Paul Kolton was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Stamford, Connecticut.

W S Merwin

(1927-2019) Poet. W. S. Merwin was born in New York City and died near Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii. He was the United States poet laureate from 1010 to 2011.

Edith Iglauer

(1917-2019) Journalist. Edith Iglauer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Sechelt, British Columbia. She received a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and was a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Mark Bramble

(1950-2019) Writer. Mark Bramble was born in Chestertown, Maryland, and died in Baltimore, Maryland.