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Helen Vendler

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Helen Vendler (1933-2024) Professor, poetry critic. Helen Vendler was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Laguna Niguel, California.

Terry Anderson

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Terry Anderson (1947-2024) Journalist. Terry Anderson was born in Lorain, Ohio, and died in Greenwood Lake, New York.

David Seidler

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David Seidler (1937-2024) Screenwriter. David Seidler was born in London, England, and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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.

Inger McCabe Elliott

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Inger McCabe Elliott (1933-2024) Photographer, author. Inger McCabe Elliott was born in Oslo, Norway, and died in Manhattan, New York. Her family fled the Nazis in 1940 and settled in New York.

Roger Donlon

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Roger Donlon (1934-2024) United States Army officer, author. Roger Donlon was born in Saugerties, New York, and died in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Letha Dawson Scanzoni

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Letha Dawson Scanzoni (1935-2024) Author. Letha Dawson Scanzoni was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in Charlotte, North Carolina. She studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Edward Jay Epstein

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Edward Jay Epstein (1935-2024) Author. Edward Jay Epstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. As a child, he lived in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn and attended Midwood High School. He also lived in Rockville Centre, in Nassau County, New York, , and graduated from South Side High School.

Mary Gilliland

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Born in Philadelphia, poet MARY GILLILAND lives in Ithaca, New York, where she has taught writing at Cornell University and at Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies, the Dalai Lama’s seat in North America. Awards include the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the … Continued