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Timothy Dwight

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(1752-1817) Writer. Timothy Dwight was chaplain of the Connecticut Continental Brigade at West Point, New York, from 1777 until 1779.

Barbara Dimmick

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Barbara Dimmick’s first novel, In The Presence Of Horses, was published by Doubleday in 1998. Translated into five foreign languages, it was a bestseller in Germany and named a Notable Book of the Season by The Brisbane Times. Her second novel, Heart-Side Up, published by Graywolf Press in 2002, was awarded the New Hampshire Writers’ … Continued

George Horatio Derby

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(1823-1861) Humorist. George Derby graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He used the pseudonyms John P. Squibob, John Phoenix, and Squibob.

Siobhan Dowd

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(1960-2007) Writer. Siobhan Dowd was born in London, England. She worked in New York City for International PEN for seven years.

Deborah Leah Sugarbaker Digges

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(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.

Catherine Crook De Camp

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(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.

Nathan Haskell Dole

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(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

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(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.