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Frederic Morton

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(1924-2015) Author, essayist. Frederic Morton was born in and died in Vienna, Austria. He and his family fled the Nazis in 1939 first to England and then to New York, where they changed their name to Morton.

Anne Moody

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(1940-2015) Author. Anne Moody was born in Centreville, Mississippi, and died in Gloster, Mississippi. She moved to New York in the 1960s and worked as the civil rights project coordinator for Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, before moving to New York City.

Richard Meryman

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(1926-2015) Journalist, biographer. Richard Meryman was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Manhattan, New York. He had been a writer and editor for Life magazine.

Rose Marie McCoy

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(1922-2015) Songwriter. Rose Marie McCoy was born in Oneida, Arkansas, and died in Urbana, Illinois. She collaborated on several hundred songs.

Gil Marks

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(1952-2014) Historian. Gil Marks was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and died in Jerusalem.

Ann Marcus

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(1921-2014) Writer. Ann Marcus was born in Little Falls, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Marcus was a writer for several television programs including “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”

Carleton Mabee

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(1914-2014) Biographer. Carleton Mabee was born in Shanghai, China, and died in Gardiner, New York. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Samuel F. B. Morse.