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Harold Vincent Milligan

(1883-1951) Author. Harold V. Milligan was the author of the book, “Stephen Collins Foster: A Biography of America’s Folk-song Composer.” He is interred in the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

John McGowan

(1894-1977) Playwright, screenwriter. John McGowan was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and died in New York, New York.

Frederica Sagor Maas

(1900-2012) Scriptwriter. Frederica Sagor Maas was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in La Mesa, California. She had been a silent-era scriptwriter.

Leonard Melfi

(1932-2001) Playwright. Leonard Melfi was born in Binghamton, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a playwright whose work was widely produced on the American stage. He contributed to the writing of the musical, Oh, Calcutta!

Allen Mandelbaum

(1926-2011) Writer. Allen Mandelbaum was born in Albany, New York, and died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He translated Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”

Anne McCaffrey

(1926-2011) Author. Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died in County Wicklow, Ireland. Ms. McCaffrey’s family moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island, in 1965, and lived there for a time.

David Montgomery

(1927-2011) Author. David Montgomery was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked as a machinist in New York during the 1950s.