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Ronald Verlin Cassill

(1919-2002) Novelist, writer. R. V. Cassill was a novelist, short-story writer, editor, book reviewer and teacher. He wrote 24 novels and 7 collections of short stories.

Richard Condon

(1915-1996) Writer. Richard Condon was a novelist who had worked as an ad writer and Hollywood agent. Many of his novels were made into movies.

Robert Crichton

(1925-1993) Novelist. Crichton served in the infantry during World War II, and was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.

James Branch Cabell

(1879-1958) Writer, novelist. James Branch Cabell was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1879 and died in Richmond, Virginia in 1958. He lived and worked in New York City from 1898 to 1900.

Lin Carter

(1930-1988) Novelist. Linwood Vrooman Carter was known as an author of science fiction and fantasy.

Emile Capouya

(1925-2005) Writer, publisher. Emile Capouya was born in New York City in 1925 and grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx. He was literary editor of The Nation from 1969 to 1977 and a literature teacher at The Juilliard School, The New School, Bard College, and CUNY Baruch. Mr. Capouya died in the Town of … Continued