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Paul F. Oreffice

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Paul F. Oreffice (1927-2024) Businessman. Paul Oreffice was born in Venice, Italy, and died in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Carole Wilbourn

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Carole Wilbourn (1940-2024) Cat therapist. Carole Wilbourn was born in Queens, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Victor Brombert

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Victor Brombert (1923-2024) Scholar. Victor Brombert was born in Berlin, Germany, and died in Princeton, New Jersey.

Dusko Doder

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Dusko Doder (1937-2024) Journalist, novelist, memoirist, author. Dusko Doder was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and died in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Caleb Carr

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Caleb Carr (1955-2024) Military historian, author. Caleb Carr was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Cherry Plain, New York.

David Bordwell

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David Bordwell (1947-2024) Historian. David Bordwell was born in Penn Yan, New York, and died in Madison, Wisconsin.

Jay Clayton

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Jay Clayton (1941-2023) Singer, author. Jay Clayton was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and died in New Paltz, New York. She moved to New York in 1963. Ms. Clayton taught at City College of New York and at The New School. She also ran a retreat for singers in Berne, New York.

James Fenimore Cooper

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(1789-1851) James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey, and his father soon moved the family and established Cooperstown, New York. Cooper is said to be the father of the American novel with “The Spy” (1821) and “The Pilot” (1823). Cooper also penned a little-known sequence of five novels called “The Leatherstocking Tales,” which … Continued