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Joseph F. Traub

(1932-2015) Author. Joseph F. Traub was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He founded the computer science department at Columbia University.

Ruth Sivard

(1915-2015) Author. Ruth Sivard was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.

Wayne W. Dyer

(1940-2015) Author. Wayne W. Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in Maui, Hawaii. He was the author of several self-help books including “Your Erroneous Zones.”

Rhoda Lerman

(1936-2015) Writer. Rhoda Lerman was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, and died in Port Crane, New York.

Hilary Thomas Masters

(1928-2015) Novelist. Hilary Masters was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a child, he lived with his parents at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, New York. He was the son of the poet Edgar Lee Masters.

Charles Neider

(1915-2001) Writer. Charles Neider was born in Odessa, Russia, and died in Princeton, New Jersey. He edited the works of Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, and Leo Tolstoy.

Frances Kroll Ring

(1916-2015) Author. Frances Kroll Ring was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. She had been secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Ben Wattenberg

(1933-2015) Author. Ben Wattenberg was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.