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Gardner Fox

(1911-1986) Writer. Gardner Fox was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Princeton, New Jersey.

Anne Froelick

(1913-2010) Screenwriter, novelist. Anne Froelick Taylor was born in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and died in Los Angeles, California. She moved to New York City when she was nineteen.

Guy Gilpatric

(1896-1950) Journalist, short-story writer, novelist. Guy Gilpatric was born in New York and died in Santa Barbara, California. He was best known for his short stories about Colin Glencannon which were published in the Saturday Evening Post.

Mike Gold

(1894-1967) Writer. Mike Gold was born on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, and died in Terra Linda, California.

Katie Cannon

(1950-2018) Author. Katie Cannon was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and died in Richmond, Virginia. She studied at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Leo Gordon

(1922-2000) Screenwriter. Leo Gordon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. He wrote more than a dozen screenplays and about fifty scripts for television shows.

Kofi Annan

(1938-2018) Author. Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi, Gold Coast (Ghana), and died in Bern, Switzerland. He was a secretary general of the United Nations, and he wrote a memoir.