William H. McNeill
(1917-2016) Author, historian. William H. McNeill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and died in Torrington, Connecticut.
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Mary Gilliland
Born in Philadelphia, poet MARY GILLILAND lives in Ithaca, New York, where she has taught writing at Cornell University and at Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies, the Dalai Lama’s seat in North America. Awards include the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the … Continued
Benedict Anderson
(1936-2015) Author. Benedict Anderson was born in Kunming, China, and died in Batu, Indonesia.
Paul West
(1930-2015) Writer, novelist, essayist, critic. Paul West was born in Eckington, Derbyshire, England, and died in Ithaca, New York.
M. H. Abrams
(1912-2015) Literary critic. M. H. Abrams was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and died in Ithaca, New York.
Ernest Sternglass
(1923-2015) Author. Ernest Sternglass was born in Berlin, Germany, and died in Ithaca, New York. Dr. Sternglass moved with his family from Germany to New York City in 1938.
Thomas Graboys
(1944-2015) Author. Thomas Graboys was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and died in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Walter Berns
(1919-2015) Author. Walter Berns was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Bethesda, Maryland.
Gregory White Smith
(1951-2014) Author. Gregory White Smith was born in Ithaca, New York, and died in Aiken, South Carolina. He collaborated on several books with Steven Naifeh.
Alison Jolly
(1937-2014) Author. Alison Jolly was born in Ithaca, New York. She received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1958. She died in Lewes, East Sussex, England.