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Michael Herr

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(1940-2016) Author. Michael Herr was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and died in Delaware County, New York.

William Hamilton

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(1939-2016) Cartoonist, novelist, playwright. William Hamilton was born in Palo Alto, California, and died in Lexington, Kentucky. He worked for The New Yorker for more than fifty years.

Geoffrey H. Hartman

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(1929-2016) Critic, writer. Geoffrey H. Hartman was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and died in Hamden, Connecticut. He was a graduate of Queens College.

Earl Hamner Jr.

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(1923-2016) Novelist. Earl Hamner Jr. was born in Schuyler, Virginia, and died in Los Angeles, California. He lived and worked in New York in the 1950s. He was the creator of the television series “The Waltons.”

Jim Harrison

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(1937-2016) Poet, novelist, essayist. Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, and died in Patagonia, Arizona. He taught briefly at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the mid 1960s.

John Holm

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(1943-2015) Author. John Holm earned a master’s degree in teaching English as a foreign language at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and later studied African-American English at the State University of New York at Cortland. He taught English and linguistics at Hunter College and taught in the doctoral linguistics program at the Graduate Center of the … Continued

Woody Hochswender

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(1951-2015) Author. Woody Hochswender was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Sea Cliff, New York. He graduated from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He had been a reporter covering the fashion industry for The New York Times.