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Hortense Calisher

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(1911-2009) Author, novelist. Hortense Calisher was born and died in Manhattan, New York. The setting for much of her writing was Manhattan, New York. She was married to the writer and novelist, Curtis Harnack.

James Winston Brady

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(1928-2009) Publisher, columnist, author. James Brady was born in and grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. He was best known as a columnist in New York City.

Robert Boris Riskin

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Many fiction writers have long been urged to get out of their ivory towers and research the real world for their material. Boris Riskin did better than that; he went out and actually worked for a living. A Brooklyn native, Riskin traveled the world. He lived in France twice, once on a honeymoon, again to … Continued

Brendan Gill

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(1914-1997) Writer. Brendan Gill was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York, in 1997. Brendan Gill was a writer for The New Yorker for more than sixty years. He lived in Bronxville, New York.

Alison Des Forges

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(1942-2009) Historian. Alison Des Forges was born in Schenectady, New York, and died in a plane crash near Buffalo, New York, in 2009.

Alfred A Knopf Jr

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(1918-2009) Publisher. Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. was born in White Plains, New York and lived in New York City. Mr. Knopf was a founder of Atheneum Publishers.