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County: Westchester

Rosario Ferre

(1938-2015) Novelist, poet, essayist, children’s book author. Rosario Ferre was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and died in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was a graduate of Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. She wrote novels in both Spanish and English.

Joan Rivers

(1933-2014) Author. Joan Rivers was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Thomas Sobol

(1932-2015) Author. Thomas Sobol was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died in Scarsdale, New York. He was appointed New York State education commissioner in 1987, a post from which he resigned in 1995.

Bart Howard

(1915-2004) Song writer. Bart Howard was born in Burlington, Iowa, and died in Carmel, New York.

Barbara Strauch

(1951-2015) Editor, author. Barbara Strauch was born in Evanston, Illinois, and died in Rye, New York. She was the science and health editor at The New York Times and had been a senior editor at New York Newsday.

Ivy May Bolton

(1879-1961) Writer. Ivy May Bolton was born in London, England, and died in Peekskill, New York. She was a sister of the playwright Guy Bolton.

Monroe Freedman

(1928-2015) Writer. Monroe Freedman was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a controversial expert on legal ethics.

Walter Liedtke

(1945-2015) Author. Walter Liedtke was a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was killed in a train crash in Valhalla, New York.