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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.

Eugene Walter

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(1921-1998) Author, screenwriter, poet, novelist. Eugene Walter was born and died in Mobile, Alabama. He lived in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York, in the years following World War II.

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.

Rose Marie McCoy

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(1922-2015) Songwriter. Rose Marie McCoy was born in Oneida, Arkansas, and died in Urbana, Illinois. She collaborated on several hundred songs.