(1928-2012) Author. Mary C. Henderson was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Congers, New York. She earned a Ph.D. in theater history, dramatic criticism and literature from New York University, she had taught theater history at New York University, and had written several books.
(1913-1976) Author. Mary Flug Handlin was born in New York City and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(1919-2011) Writer, poet. Florence Parry Heide was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
(1931-2011) Author. Budd Hopkins was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and died in Manhattan, New York.
(1929-2011) Writer. Leonard Harris was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Hartford, Connecticut.
(1947-2011) Author. Michael Hart was born in Tacoma, Washington, and died in Urbana, Illinois. He is credited with creating the first e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg.
(1915-2011) Historian. Oscar Handlin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first wife was Mary Flug Handlin, also a historian.
(1919-2011) Poet, critic, translator. Edwin Honig was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Providence, Rhode Island.
(1924-2011) Poet. John Haines was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and died in Fairbanks, Alaska. He attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Guggenheim Museum and the New York City Public High Schools.
(1941-2010) Author. Richard C. Holbrooke was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Washington, D. C. He was an editor of Foreign Policy magazine from 1972 to 1977, a writer of columns for The Washington Post and other publications, and author of two books.