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Ivy May Bolton

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(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.

Barbara Strauch

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(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.

Monroe Freedman

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(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

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(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.

Carolyn Ashley Kizer

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(1924-2014) Poet. Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington, and died in Sonoma, California. Ms. Kizer studied at Sarah Lawrence College and at Columbia University.

Msgr Lorenzo Albacete

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(1941-2014) Author. Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and died in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He wrote articles about religion for the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, and he was a professor of theology at St. Joseph Seminary and lived in Yonkers, New York.

Mervyn Wilfred Susser

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(1921-2014) Author. Mervyn Susser was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and died in Hastings-On-Hudson, New York. He became chairman of the division of epidemiology at Columbia University in 1966.

John Mack Carter

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(1928-2014) Editor. John Mack Carter was born in Murray, Kentucky, and died in Bronxville, New York. He had been editor of McCall’s, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping.