Jean Stein
(1934-2017) Author, editor. Jean Stein was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Manhattan, New York. She had been an editor at The Paris Review and at Grand Street.
Type: NY City
Robert H. Phelps
(1919-2017) Author, editor. Robert H. Phelps was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and died in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He had been editor at The New York Times and The Boston Globe.
William J. Baumol
(1922-2017) Economist, author. William J. Baumol was born in the South Bronx, New York, and died in New York City.
Judith Stein
(1940-2017) Author. Judith Stein was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Franklyn (Frank) Bruce Modell
(1917-2016) Cartoonist. Frank Modell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Guilford, Connecticut. He was a cartoonist for The New Yorker.
Anatoly Mironovich Kovarsky
(1919-2016) Cartoonist. Anatol Kovarsky was born in Moscow, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a cartoonist for The New Yorker.
Robert Maxwell Weber
(1924-2016) Cartoonist. Robert Weber was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Branford, Connecticut. He had been a cartoonist for The New Yorker. He was a contributor to the 2007 book of New Yorker cartoons, “Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement…and the Great Beyond.”
Richard Nelson Bolles
(1927-2017) Author. Richard Bolles was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died in San Ramon, California.
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.