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Peter Gay

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(1923-2015) Historian. Peter Gay was born in Berlin, Germany, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Monica Lewis

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(1922-2015) Author. Monica Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Los Angeles, California. She moved with her family to New York when she was eleven.

Howard Sackler

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(1929-1982) Screenwriter, playwright. Howard Sackler was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Ibiza, Spain. Mr. Sackler was a gratdate of Brooklyn College and the winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for drama for “The Great White Hope.”

Ruth Lisa Schechter

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(1917-1989) Poet. Ruth Lisa Schechter was born in Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in New York City, and spent most of her life working in New York City hospitals. She was the mother of the writer Danny Schechter.

Ira Lewis

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(1932-2015) Playwright. Ira Lewis was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Edison, New Jersey. He was a playwright whose plays were produced on Broadway in New York City. He lived most of his life in Greenwich Village, New York, New York.

Frederic Morton

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(1924-2015) Author, essayist. Frederic Morton was born in and died in Vienna, Austria. He and his family fled the Nazis in 1939 first to England and then to New York, where they changed their name to Morton.

Richard Corliss

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(1944-2015) Film critic. Richard Corliss was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Manhattan, New York. He studied at Columbia University where he earned a master’s degree, and at New York University. He was a film critic for Time magazine for many years.