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Israel Joshua Singer

(1893-1944) Novelist, journalist, author. Israel Joshua Singer was born in Poland and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a brother of the novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Mark Apter Strand

(1934-2014) Poet. Mark Strand was born in Summerside on Prince Edward Island in Canada, and died in Brooklyn, New York. He was named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1990-1991 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999.

Gilbert Vivian Seldes

(1893-1970) Journalist, playwright, author. Gilbert Seldes was born in Alliance, New Jersey, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was the father of the author Marion Hall Seldes.