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(Herbert) Franz Schurmann

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(1926-2010) Author. Franz Schurmann was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, and died in San Francisco, California. He was an expert on China and a co-founder of Pacific News Service.

Leslie Scalapino

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(1944-2010) Poet, playwright, publisher. Leslie Scalapino was born in Santa Barbara, California, and died in Berkeley, California. She published more than thirty books.

Ben Sonnenberg

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(1936-2010) Writer. Ben Sonnenberg was born and died in Manhattan, New York. He was the founder of the literary journal, Grand Stree.

John Schoenherr

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(1935-2010) Illustrator. John Schoenherr was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Easton, Pennsylvania. He was the illustrator of more than forty children’s titles. He was also well known as a science-fiction illustrator.

Matthew J Spireng

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Matthew J. Spireng’s book, Out of Body, won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award and was published in 2006 by Bluestem Press at Emporia State University. His chapbooks are: Young Farmer; Encounters; Inspiration Point, winner of the 2000 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition; and Just This. His book, What Focus Is, is forthcoming in 2011 … Continued

Margo Taft Stever

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Margo Taft Stever’s collection of poetry, Frozen Spring (2002), was the winner of the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her chapbook, Reading the Night Sky (Introduction by Denise Levertov), won the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. She is the founder and current board member of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (www.writerscenter.org), and the … Continued

Ms Deborah Schupack

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Deborah Schupack’s latest novel, Sylvan Street (Plume, May 2010), explores what happens when cold, hard cash moves in next door, amid friends and neighbors, husbands and wives. “Teeming with plot twists and social unrest, Schupack shows with poignant prose and commendable plotting the good, the bad, and the ugly that money brings out in people,” … Continued

Jane Sherman

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(1908-2010) Writer. Jane Sherman was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, and died in Englewood, New Jersey. She was known as a dancer and a writer of American dance. She and her family moved to New York City when she was a child.