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Len Wein

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(1948-2017) Comic book writer. Len Wein was born in New York and died in Los Angeles, California.

Bob Wolff

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(1920-2017) Author. Bob Wolff was born in New York City and died in South Nyack, New York. His memoir is titled, ” It’s Not Who Won Or Lost The Game–It’s How You Sold The Beer.”

Robert Maxwell Weber

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(1924-2016) Cartoonist. Robert Weber was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Branford, Connecticut. He had been a cartoonist for The New Yorker. He was a contributor to the 2007 book of New Yorker cartoons, “Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement…and the Great Beyond.”

Derek Alton Walcott

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(1930-2017) Poet. Derek Walcott was born in Castries, St. Lucia, and died near Gros Islet, St. Lucia. He studied directing with Jose Quintero in New York for a year. Mr. Walcott visited Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, some 25 times between 1978 and 2014.

Roger Wilkins

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(1932-2017) Author, journalist. Roger Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and died in Kensington, Maryland.

Nancy Margaret Willard

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(1936-2017) Author, poet. Nancy Willard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She died in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Robert Alfred Jump Wilson

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(1922-2016) Author. Robert A. Wilson was born in and died in Baltimore, Maryland. He was owner of the Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.

Charles Wolf Jr.

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(1924-2016) Author. Charles Wolf Jr. was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. He wrote for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.