Fay Chiang
(1952-2017) Poet. Fay Chiang was born in and died in the Bronx, New York.
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Maurice Carroll
(1931-2017) Reporter. Maurice Carroll was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, and died in Convent Station, New Jersey.
Morton Cohen
(1921-2017) Biographer. Morton Cohen was born in Calgary, Alberta, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Michael Thomas Crawford
(1945-2016) Cartoonist. Michael Crawford was born in Oswego, New York, and died in Kingston, New York. He had been a cartoonist at The New Yorker. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Alan Samuel Colmes
(1950-2017) Author. Alan Colmes was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Arthur H. Cash
(1922-2016) Writer. Arthur H. Cash was born in Gary, Indiana, and died in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. He taught at the State University of New York at New Paltz for many years.
Erwin Chargaff
(1905-2002) Author. Erwin Chargaff was born in Czernowitz, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and died in New York City.
Michelle Cliff
(1946-2016) Writer. Michele Cliff was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and died in Santa Cruz, California.
Jackie Carter
(1953-2016) Author. Jackie Carter was born in Port Chester, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Bettye Caldwell
(1924-2016) Author, educator. Bettye Caldwell was born in Smithville, Texas, and died in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the director of the Children’s Center at Syracuse University during the 1960s.