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Corinne Muriel Litvin Jacker

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(1933-2013) Playwright. Corinne Jacker was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Manhattan, New York. She was best known as a playwright, but also wrote scripts for public television.

Leon Morton Jaroff

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(1927-2012) Author. Leon Jaroff was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in East Hampton, New York. He was a science writer and editor at Time and Discover.

Susan Jeffers

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(1938-2012) Author. Susan Jeffers was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Santa Monica, California.

Jill Johnston

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(1929-2010) Writer. Jill Johnston was born in London, England, and died in Hartford, Connecticut. She grew up on Long Island. She was a writer for the Village Voice.

Tony Judt

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(1948-2010) Historian. Tony Judt was born in London, England, and died in Manhattan, New York. His writings appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, and The London Review of Books.

Michael H Jennings

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I was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans and grew up in east Texas and the deserts of southwestern Iran before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University. I have seen nine poetry collections into print (most recently RIVER TIME, winner of the 2014 … Continued

Robert Underwood Johnson

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(1853-1937) Writer. Robert Underwood Johnson was born in Washington, D. C., and died in New York. He worked for Century Magazine for about forty years. He was the father of novelist Owen McMahon Johnson.

Matthew Josephson

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(1899-1978) Author, poet. Matthew Josephson was born in Brooklyn, New York. He wrote on nineteenth-century French literature and twentieth-century American economic history.