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Carl Djerassi

(1923-2015) Author, poet, playwright. Carl Djerassi was born in Vienna, Austria, and died in San Francisco, California. He lived for a time in upstate New York.

Thomas B. Morgan

(1926-2014) Writer, editor. Thomas B. Morgan was born in Springfield, Illinois, and died in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. He wrote articles for Esquire, Life, Harper’s and others.

Dorothea Margaret Tanning

(1910-2012) Poet. Dorothea Tanning was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and died in Manhattan, New York. Best known as a surrealist painter, Ms. Tanning also was a writer with some of her work appearing in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Boston Review, The Southwest Review, Parnassus, and in Best Poems … Continued

Dolores Obdulia Prida

(1943-2013) Playwright. Dolores Prida was born in Caibarien, Cuba, and died in Manhattan, New York. She was known for her longtime “Dolores Dice” (Dolores Says) advice column in Latina magazine. She also was a columnist for the Daily News of New York and for El Diario/La Prensa, a Spanish-language daily in New York City.

Susana Case

Susana H. Case, professor at the New York Institute of Technology, has recent work in many journals, including Hawai’i Pacific Review, Portland Review, Potomac Review, and Saranac Review. She is the author of the chapbooks The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press), Anthropologist In Ohio (Main Street Rag Publishing Company), The Cost Of Heat (Pecan Grove … Continued

Henry Herx

(1933-2012) Critic. Henry Herx was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Ramsey, New Jersey. He was the author of movie reviews for Roman Catholic publications.

Earl Shorris

(1936-2012) Author, critic. Earl Shorris was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in New York. He was the author of about a dozen books.