(1940-2018) Author. Marcia Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in New Haven, Connecticut. She was a graduate of City College and taught English at schools in Brooklyn and Queens. She wrote articles for The New York Times, The Associated Press, and Golf Digest.
(1902-1993) Author. Lillian de la Torre was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
(1876-1962) Author. Mary Augusta Dickerson was born in New York City and died in Chicago, Illinois. She was the author of children’s books and cook books. She wrote under her married name Mary Dickerson Donahey.
(1820-1875) Diarist. George Templeton Strong was born in New York and died in Manhattan, New York.
(1932-2018) Author. Richard Valeriani was born in Camden, New Jersey, and died in Manhattan, New York.
(1924-2018) Author. Frances Walker-Slocum was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Oberlin, Ohio. She taught at the Third Street Settlement School in Manhattan, New York.
(1926-2018) Author. Stanley Cavell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.
(1936-2018) Author. Nina Baym was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and died in Urbana, Illinois.
(1935-2018) Author. Miriam Griffin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Oxford, England.
(1922-2018) Author. Lorraine Gordon was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Manhattan, New York. She was proprietor of the Village Vanguard in Manhattan, New York, and wrote a memoir of her time there.