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Reggie Wells

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Reggie Wells (1947-2024) Make-up artist, author. Reggie Wells was born in and died in Baltimore, Maryland.

Edward Jay Epstein

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Edward Jay Epstein (1935-2024) Author. Edward Jay Epstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. As a child, he lived in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn and attended Midwood High School. He also lived in Rockville Centre, in Nassau County, New York, , and graduated from South Side High School.

Sol Yurick

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(1925-2013) Novelist. Sol Yurick was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at New York University.

Owen Wister

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(1860-1938) Novelist. Owen Wister was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania and died in Kingston, Rhode Island. Wister worked as a bank clerk in New York for a short time.

Jesus Colon

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(1901-1974) Essayist, journalist. Born in Cayey, Puerto Rico. In 1918, Colon was a stowaway on the S.S. Carolina which landed in Brooklyn. He settled in New York City’s Puerto Rican community and took a series of grueling jobs which exposed him to the discrimination and injustice experienced by many Puerto Rican “unskilled” laborers. He became … Continued