Nina Baym
(1936-2018) Author. Nina Baym was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and died in Urbana, Illinois.
Type: NY City
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.
Joe Pintauro
(1930-2018) Playwright. Joe Pintauro was born in Queens, New York, and died in Sag Harbor, New York.
George Fielding Eliot
(1894-1971) Military writer. George Fielding Eliot was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Torrington, Connecticut.
Tom Wolfe
(1930-2018) Journalist, novelist. Tom Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Leah Napolin
(1935-2018) Playwright. Leah Napolin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Sea Cliff, New York.