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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.

Gustav Davidson

(1895-1971) Poet. Gustav Davidson received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. He served as secretary of the Poetry Society Of America.

Tory Dent

(1958-2005) Poet, essayist. Tory Dent was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and died in Manhattan, New York.

John P Diggins

(1935-2009) Historian. John P. Diggins was born in San Francisco, California, in 1935, and died in Manhattan, New York, in 2009.