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Ernest Kinoy

(1925-2014) Writer. Ernest Kinoy was born in New York City and died in Townshend, Vermont. He wrote Emmy Award-winning episodes of “The Defenders” and Roots.”

Allan Mark Kornblum

(1949-2014) Publisher. Allan Kornblum was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He founded the Coffee House Press.

Carolyn Ashley Kizer

(1924-2014) Poet. Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington, and died in Sonoma, California. Ms. Kizer studied at Sarah Lawrence College and at Columbia University.

Galway Mills Kinnell

(1927-2014) Poet. Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Sheffield, Vermont. He received a master’s degree from the University of Rochester.

Lyalya Kaufman

(1887-1964) Writer. Lyalya Kaufman was born in Belaya Tserkov, near Kiev, Russia, and died in New York City. She was the eldest daughter of Sholem Aleichem and mother of the novelest, Bel Kaufman. She contributed about 2,000 of her short stories to the Jewish Daily Forward.

Bel Kaufman

(1911-2014) Novelist. Bel Kaufman was born in Berlin, Germany, and died in Manhattan, New York. She was a schoolteacher in New York City for many years. She was the daughter of the writer, Lyalya Kaufman, and the granddaughter of the novelist and playwright, Sholem Aleichem.

Justin Kaplan

(1925-2014) Biographer. Justin Daniel Kaplan was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.