Alfred Harbage
(1901-1976) Scholar, author. Alfred Harbage was born in and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Type: NY City
William Harben
(1858-1919) Novelist. William Harben was born in Dalton, Georgia, and died in New York City.
Tom Clark
(1941-2018) Poet. Tom Clark was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and died in Oakland, California.
Neil Simon
(1927-2018) Playwright. Neil Simon was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
(1934-2002) Author, essayist. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison was born in Queens, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Marianne Hauser
(1910-2006) Novelist, short story writer, journalist. Marianne Hauser was born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France. She lived for many years in New York City and was an English instructor at Queens College for a time.
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.
Lois Gould
(1931-2002) Novelist. Lois Gould was born in and died in Manhattan, New York.