Lee Hall
(1934-2017) Biographer. Lee Hall was born in Lexington, North Carolina, and died in Northampton, Massachusetts. She wrote a biography of the painters Elaine and Willem de Kooning.
Type: NY City
Ann Birstein
(1927-2017) Memoirist, novelist. Ann Birstein was born in and died in Manhattan, New York.
Jean Sammet
(1928-2017) Author. Jean Sammet was born in New York City and died at a hospital near Silver Spring, Maryland.
Neil Gordon
(1958-2017) Novelist. Neil Gordon was born in Johannesburg and died in Manhattan, New York.
Jack Trout
(1935-2017) Author. Jack Trout was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Charles Simmons
(1924-2017) Novelist. Charles Simmons was born in and died in Manhattan, New York. He graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan and received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. He had worked as an editor at The New York Times Book Review for thirty years.
Juliana Young Koo
(1905-2017) Author. Juliana Young Koo was born in Tianjin, China, and died in Manhattan, New York. She immigrated to the United States in 1945 and settled in New York.
Chana Bloch
(1940-2017) Poet, translator. Chana Bloch was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Berkeley, California.
Robert S. Leiken
(1939-2017) Author. Robert S. Leiken was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Philip Gossett
(1941-2017) Scholar, author. Philip Gossett was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Chicago, Illinois.