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Holly Anderson

Holly Anderson has been anthologized in Up is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (NYU Press) The Unbearables, The Unbearables Big Book of Sex (Autonomedia) and First Person Intense (Mudborn Press) Her limited edition books Lily Lou and Sheherezade are in library collections including MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria … Continued

Stella Adler

(1901-1992) Stella Adler was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. She was the author of “The Technique Of Acting,” published by Bantam Books, Inc. in 1988.

Peter Arno

(1904-1968) Cartoonist. Peter Arno was born in New York City and died in Port Chester, New York.

Nick Ashford

(1941-2011) Songwriter. Nick Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and died in New York City. He with his partner and wife, Valerie Simpson, wrote some of Motown’s biggest hits.

Sidney H Asch

(1919-2011) Writer. Sidney H. Asch was born on May 30, 1919, and died in North Carolina on September 1, 2011.

Maury Allen

(1932-2010) Author. Maury Allen was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. He was a writer for The New York Post and author of several sports books.

Joseph John Amodeo

Joseph Amodeo has been profiled in Neurology Now in the August 2002 issue; interviewed on Time Warner CTV “Caring About People;” featured in the windows of Barnes and Nobles and Borders Express in Staten Island; and in Whose Who in American Poetry. He authored “My Moments of Hope,” ISBN: 9781434313805, inspiritual book. Inspiritual journey with … Continued

Louis Stanton Auchincloss

(1917-2010) Writer. Louis Auchincloss was born in Lawrence, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He worked as a lawyer in Manhattan, New York, for many years.

Francisco Ayala

(1906-2009) Novelist, poet. Francisco Ayala Garcia-Duarte was born in Granada in 1906, and died in Madrid, Spain, in 2009. He taught at New York University and Brooklyn College.