Isaac Kaufman Funk
(1839-1912) Editor, publisher. Isaac Kaufman Funk was born in Clifton, Ohio, and died in Montclair, New Jersey. He founded I. K. Funk and Company which later became known as Funk and Wagnalls.
Type: NY City
Lyalya Kaufman
(1887-1964) Writer. Lyalya Kaufman was born in Belaya Tserkov, near Kiev, Russia, and died in New York City. She was the eldest daughter of Sholem Aleichem and mother of the novelest, Bel Kaufman. She contributed about 2,000 of her short stories to the Jewish Daily Forward.
Leonard Fein
(1934-2014) Writer. Leonard Fein was born in New York City and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a writer about Jewish affairs for The Jewish Daily Forward and contributed to other publications including The New York Times. He was the brother of the author, Rashi Fein.
Bob Hart
(1931-2014) Poet. Bob Hart was born in 1931 and died in 2014.
Samuel Hunter
(1923-2014) Writer. Sam Hunter was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died in Princeton, New Jersey.
Nathaniel Benchley
(1915-1981) Novelist. Nathaniel Benchley was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of writer Robert Benchley and the father of writer Peter Benchley. He was a journalist for The New York Herald Tribune and Newsweek.
David Rosand
(1938-2014) Author. David Rosand was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He taught at Columbia University.
Elizabeth Millspaugh Fowler
(1919-2014) Reporter, author. Elizabeth M. Fowler was born in Newburgh, New York, and died in Chatham, New Jersey.
Herbert Roger Lottman
(1927-2014) Biographer. Herbert Lottman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Paris, France.
Robert Stanley Crewe
(1930-2014) Songwriter. Bob Crewe was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Scarborough, Maine.