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Dana Brand

(1954-2011) Writer. Dana Brand was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Danbury, Connecticut.

E M Broner

(1927-2011) Writer. E. M. Broner was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Daniel Bell

(1919-2011) Writer. Daniel Bell was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Father Lawrence Boadt

(1942-2010) Author. Lawrence Boadt was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Mahwah, New Jersey. He was a priest, publisher, and Bible scholar.

Vance Nye Bourjaily

(1922-2010) Novelist. Vance Bourjaily was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Greenbrae, California. He lived part of his childhood in New York and later was a writer for the Village Voice.

Mermer Blakeslee

Mermer Blakeslee has published two novels, Same Blood and In Dark Water. In Dark Water was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. Mermer was awarded three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in fiction, the most recent in 2008. An excerpt from Digger’s God, her latest novel, won … Continued

Richard Boes

(1949-2009) Author. Richard Boes died at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany, New York, in 2009.