Frances Walker-Slocum
(1924-2018) Author. Frances Walker-Slocum was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Oberlin, Ohio. She taught at the Third Street Settlement School in Manhattan, New York.
County: Queens
Howard Roscoe Driggs
(1873-1963) Professor, novelist, author, editor. Howard R. Driggs was born in Pleasant Grove, Utah, and died in Bayside, New York.
Jerry A Fodor
(1935-2017) Philosopher, author. Jerry A. Fodor was born in New York City and died in Manhattan, New York.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus (Yevtushenko)
(1933-2017) Poet. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born in Zima Junction, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Jimmy Breslin
(1928-2017) Writer. Jimmy Breslin was born in Queens, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a columnist and best-selling author.
John (Jack) Denmore Ziegler Jr.
(1942-2017) Cartoonist. Jack Ziegler was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Kansas City, Kansas. He had been a cartoonist at The New Yorker.
Raymond Smullyan
(1919-2017) Author. Raymond Smullyan was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, and died in Hudson, New York.
Gloria Naylor
(1950-2016) Novelist. Gloria Naylor was born in Manhattan, New York, on January 25, 1950, and died in Christiansted, Virgin Islands.
Gwen L. Ifill
(1955-2016) Journalist. Gwen Ifill was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and died in Washington, District of Columbia. As a journalist, she reported for The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC, PBS, The Boston Herald-American, and The Baltimore Evening Sun.
Gene Wilder
(1933-2016) Novelist, screenwriter, actor. Gene Wilder was best known as a comic actor, but he also authored several books. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died in Stamford, Connecticut.