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.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus (Yevtushenko)
(1933-2017) Poet. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born in Zima Junction, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Glenn O’Brien
(1947-2017) Writer, editor. Glenn O’Brien was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Elizabeth Sargent
(1920-2017) Poet. Elizabeth Sargent was born in West Virginia or Pennsylvania, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Frances Sargent Osgood
(1811-1850) Poet. Frances Sargent Osgood was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Manhattan, New York.