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Rose E Frisch

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(1918-2015) Author. Rose E. Frisch was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bob Simon

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(1941-2015) Author. Bob Simon was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a CBS News correspondent.

Assia Djebar

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(1936-2015) Novelist, writer, filmmaker. Assia Djebar was born in Cherchell, Algiers, and died in Paris, France. She had been a professor of French and Francophone studies at New York University.

Richard Meryman

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(1926-2015) Journalist, biographer. Richard Meryman was born in Washington, District of Columbia, and died in Manhattan, New York. He had been a writer and editor for Life magazine.

Philip Levine

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(1928-2015) Poet. Philip Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in Fresno, California. He served as United States poet laureate from 2011 to 2012. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his collection “The Simple Truth”.

Alice K Turner

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(1939-2015) Author. Alice K. Turner was born in China and died in Manhattan, New York. She was fiction editor for Playboy for many years and the author of “The History of Hell,” and editor of several anthologies.

Joe Franklin

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(1926-2015) Author. Joe Franklin was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a long-time television personality.

George Dickerson

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(1933-2015) Poet, writer. George Dickerson, attended Yale on a science scholarship, but switched majors after reading The Great Gatsby. In 1959, he was featured in a reading of Beat Poets. His fiction appeared in Best American Short Stories, 1963 and 1966. His poetry appeared in The New Yorker and Madmoiselle. Penthouse, Saturday Evening Post, and … Continued

John Leggett

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(1917-2015) Writer, novelist. John Leggett was born in New York, New York, and died in Napa, California. He was the former director of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and co-founder and director of the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference.