(1915-2006) Art historian. Craig Hugh Smyth was born in New York, New York in 1915 and died in Englewood, New Jersey, in 2006. He had been a professor at and a director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and it was there that, in 1960, he began the first academic program … Continued
(1908-2006) Author. Robert L. Scott, Jr. was born in Macon, Georgia in 1908 and died in Macon, Georgia in 2006. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1932 and served in the United States Air Force from 1932 to 1957. He was assigned to Mitchell Field, New York in 1933. He wrote about … Continued
(1918-2006) Poet, writer. Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1918, and died in Florence, Italy in 2006. She lived in New York City for many years.
(1925-2006) Writer, novelist. William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1925. He worked, for a time, for McGraw-Hill Publishing in New York City. Mr. Styron died on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in 2006.
(1966-2006) Screenwriter. Adrienne Shelly was born in Queens, New York and lived in Manhattan for a part of her life. She wrote and directed several independent films. She died at her office in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York in 2006.
(1933-2006) Schoenstein was born in Manhattan, New York in 1933. He lived his childhood in New York and graduated from Columbia University. His works include: “The Block” (1960) and “Yes, My Darling Daughters: Adventures in Fathering” (1976). He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2006.
(1922-2006) Screenwriter. Joseph Stefano was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1922 and moved in the 1940s to New York where he was an entertainer and later was the screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (1960). His other works include “Eye of the Cat” (1969). Stefano died in Thousand Oaks, California in 2006.
Poet, novelist and essayist, Terese Svoboda’s most recent book is Trailer Girl (Counterpoint Press, 2001), a novel and a collection of short stories. “A full world, fierce, devastate and ultimately exhilerating,” wrote Robert Polito, author of Savage Art. She has also published three books of poetry, one book of translation from the African language, Nuer, … Continued
(1918-2006)(Frank Morrison Spillane) Mickey Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. He attended schools in Brooklyn and Elizabeth, New Jersey, and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1935. He purchased land, built a home, and wrote many of his books near Newburgh, New York. His … Continued