Thomas Berger
(1924-2014) Author. Thomas Berger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Nyack, New York. He authored more than twenty novels.
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Charles Barsotti
(1933-2014) Charles Barsotti was born in San Marcos, Texas, and died in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a cartoonist for The New Yorker.
Gary Stanley Becker
(1930-2014) Author. Gary Becker was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended James Madison High School. He was, for a time, professor of economics at Columbia University. He died in Chicago, Illinois.
David Brenner
(1936-2014) Author. David Brenner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was the author of several books.
Morris Bishop
(1893-1973) Author. Morris Bishop spent most of his life in New York and was associated with Cornell University.
Abraham Briloff
(1917-2013) Author. Abraham Briloff was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Great Neck, New York.
Barbara Branden
(1929-2013) Biographer. Barbara Branden was born in Winnipeg, Canada, and died in West Hollywood, California.
Amiri Baraka
(1934-2014) Poet, playwright. Amiri Baraka was born in and died in Newark, New Jersey. He was also known as Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, and Imamu Ameer Baraka.
Marshall Howard Berman
(1940-2013) Author. Marshall Berman was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
D J R Bruckner
(1933-2013) Columnist, critic. D. J. R. Bruckner was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a book and theater critic for The New York Times from 1981 to 2005.