Mike Gold
(1894-1967) Writer. Mike Gold was born on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, and died in Terra Linda, California.
County: New York
Katie Cannon
(1950-2018) Author. Katie Cannon was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and died in Richmond, Virginia. She studied at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Kofi Annan
(1938-2018) Author. Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi, Gold Coast (Ghana), and died in Bern, Switzerland. He was a secretary general of the United Nations, and he wrote a memoir.
Lois Gould
(1931-2002) Novelist. Lois Gould was born in and died in Manhattan, New York.
Philip Benjamin
(1922-1966) Writer, novelist. Philip Benjamin was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a reporter for The New York Times.
Charles Henri Ford
(1908-2002) Poet, editor, novelist. Charles Henri Ford was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Betty Miles
(1928-2018) Writer. Betty Miles was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Shelburne, Vermont. She lived and worked for a time in New York City.
Michael Sheehan
(1955-2018) Author. Michael Sheehan was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, and died in Bethesda, Maryland.
Cynthia Freeman
(1915-1988) Writer. Cynthia Freeman was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in San Francisco, California.
Anne Froelick
(1913-2010) Screenwriter, novelist. Anne Froelick Taylor was born in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and died in Los Angeles, California. She moved to New York City when she was nineteen.