Ken Hechler
(1914-2016) Author. Ken Hechler was born in Roslyn, New York, and died in Romney, West Virginia.
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Shirley Hazzard
(1931-2016) Novelist. Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney, australia, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Nat Hentoff
(1925-2017) Journalist. Nat Hentoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Manhattan, New York. He moved to New York in 1953 and wrote for The Village Voice for many years.
Dorothy Cann Hamilton
(1949-2016) Author. Dorothy Cann Hamilton was born in Manhattan, New York, and died on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
Michael Herr
(1940-2016) Author. Michael Herr was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and died in Delaware County, New York.
William Hamilton
(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.
Michael S Harper
(1938-2016) Poet. Michael S. Harper was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Geoffrey H. Hartman
(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.
(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
(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.