Jean Kerr
(1922-2003) Author, playwright. Jean Kerr was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and died in White Plains, New York. She was married to Walter Kerr and the mother of the author, John Michael Kerr.
County: Westchester
Daniel Gerard Hoffman
(1923-2013) Poet. Daniel Hoffman was born in New York City and died in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1973 to 1974.
Frederick Upham Adams
(1859-1921) Author. Frederick Upham Adams was born in Sharon, Massachusetts, and died in Larchmont, New York.
Douglas Elton Thomas Fairbanks (Ullman)
(1883-1939) Screenwriter. Douglas Fairbanks was born in Denver, Colorado, and died in Santa Monica, California. He lived for a time in Larchmont, New York.
Brenda Connor-Bey Miller
(1944-2012) Poet. Brenda Connor-Bey Miller was born in 1944 and died in 2012. As a child, she lived in Queens, New York, and later in Greenburgh, New York. She was the first poet laureate of Greenburgh, New York.
MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick
MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick, a member of EMBARK/Peekskill, a coalition of performing and literary artists, lives with her husband Mark and their sons, Aidan, Conor, and Brendan, in Peekskill, New York.
Anthony Horton
(1968-2012) Author. Anthony Horton was born in New York City and died in Manhattan, New York.
Maurice Stanley Friedman
(1921-2012) Biographer. Maurice S. Friedman was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died in Solana Beach, California. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.
Olga Nolla
(1938-2001) Poet, writer, journalist. Olga Nolla (full name Olga Nolla Ramirez de Arellano) was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, and died in New York City.
Robert Hughes
(1938-2012) Critic, writer. Robert Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia, and died in the Bronx, New York. He was an art critic and historian.