Richard Witkin
(1918-2013) Writer. Richard Witkin was born in New York City and died in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was an aviation reporter for The New York Times.
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William Weaver
(1923-2013) Translator. William Weaver was probably born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Rhinebeck, New York.
Kenneth Wilson
(1936-2013) Author. Kenneth Wilson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, and died in Saco, Maine. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kenneth Waltz
(1924-2013) Writer. Kenneth Waltz was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Bernard Waber
(1921-2013) Author. Bernard Waber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Baldwin, New York. He moved to New York in the mid-1950s where he worked for Life magazine for twenty years.
Paul Williams
(1948-2013) Critic, writer, journalist. Paul Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Encinitas, California.
Ruth Waterbury
(1896-1982) Writer. Ruth Waterbury was born in New York, and died in Newbury Park, California. She was an editor of Photoplay and Silver Screen magazines. She had been a writer for The New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Herald, and Coronet Magazine.
Jonathan Harshman Winters
(1925-2013) Author. Jonathan Winters was born in Dayton, Ohio, and died in Montecito, California. He moved to New York in 1953.
Mansfield Tracy Walworth
(1830-1873) Author. Mansfield Walworth was born in Albany, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Diane Wolkstein
(1942-2013) Author. Diane Wolkstein was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She was a children’s author and folklorist and at one time she served as New York City’s official storyteller. She taught at New York University.