Deborah Leah Sugarbaker Digges
(1950-2009) Poet. Deborah Digges was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, and died in Amherst, Massachusetts. She had taught English at New York University and Columbia University in New York City.
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Catherine Crook De Camp
(1907-2000) Author, editor. Catherine Crook De Camp was born in New York City and died in Plano, Texas. She collaborated with her husband, L. Sprague De Camp, on many science fiction novels, and wrote nonfiction and children’s books on her own.
David Herbert Donald
(1920-2009) Writer. David Herbert Donald was born in Goodman, Mississippi, and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Helen Deutsch
(1906-1992) Screenwriter. Helen Deutsch was born in Manhattan, New York.
James Lafayette Dickey
(1923-1997) Poet, novelist. James Dickey moved to New York in 1956, and worked for the advertising agency, McCann-Erickson. Dickey was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1966 to 1968.
Owen Vincent Dodson
(1914-1983) Poet, novelist, playwright. Owen Dodson was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Nathan Haskell Dole
(1852-1935) Editor, translator, author. Nathan Haskell Dole was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and lived most of his life in Massachusetts. At the age of seventy-six, he and his wife moved to New York City bo be near their daughter and grandchildren.
Celia Dropkin
(1887-1956) Poet. Celia Dropkin was born in Bobruysk, Belarus. She lived in New York City, and is buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens, New York. She lived during later years in Florida and in the Catskills of New York.
Alan Dugan
(1923-2003) Poet. Alan Dugan was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Henry Lee Dumas
(1934-1968) Poet. Henry Dumas died in Manhattan, New York.