Clifford Irving
(1930-2017) Author. Clifford Irving was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Sarasota, Florida.
Type: NY City
Keorapetse Kgositsile
(1938-2018) Poet. Keorapetse Kgositsile was born in and died in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Geoffrey Hazard
(1929-2018) Author. Geoffrey Hazard was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.
Julius B Lester
(1939-2018) Author. Julius Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in Palmer, Massachusetts. He moved to New York in the early 1960s.
Valery Chalidze
(1938-2018) Author. Valery Chalidze was born in Moscow, Russia, and died in Benson, Vermont. He came to New York in 1972.
Lester Dent
(1904-1959) Author. Lester Dent was born in La Plata, Missouri, and died in Kirksville, Missouri. He came to New York City in 1931 to write for Dell Publishing. He was the author of most of the “Doc” Savage stories.
Ulysses S. Grant
(1822-1885) Author. Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and died in Wilton, New York.
Ursula K. Le Guin
(1929-2018) Author. Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, and died in Portland, Oregon. She received a master’s degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952.
Wyatt Tee Walker
(1929-2018) Author. Wyatt Tee Walker was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, and died in Chester, Virginia.
Liz Smith
(1923-2017) Writer. Liz Smith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and died in Manhattan, New York. She had been a New York tabloid gossip columnist for more than thirty years.