George Templeton Strong
(1820-1875) Diarist. George Templeton Strong was born in New York and died in Manhattan, New York.
Type: NY City
Richard Valeriani
(1932-2018) Author. Richard Valeriani was born in Camden, New Jersey, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Frances Walker-Slocum
(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.
Stanley Cavell
(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.
Nina Baym
(1936-2018) Author. Nina Baym was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and died in Urbana, Illinois.
Miriam Griffin
(1935-2018) Author. Miriam Griffin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Oxford, England.
Lorraine Stein Gordon
(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.
Anthony Bourdain
(1956-2018) Author. Anthony Bourdain was born in New York and died in France.
Jerry Hopkins
(1935-2018) Biographer. Jerry Hopkins was born in Camden, New Jersey, and died in Bangkok, Thailand. He received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. He wrote for The Village Voice in New York and, for about 20 years, he was a writer for Rolling Stone.
Ira Berlin
(1941-2018) Historian. Ira Berlin was born in New York City and died in Washington, District of Columbia.