Mary Oliver
(1935-2019) Poet. Mary Oliver was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Hobe Sound, Florida. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of more than twenty volumes of verse.
Type: NY State
Harris Wofford
(1926-2019) Senator, author. Harris Wofford was born in New York City and died in Washington, District of Columbia.
Albert J Dunlap
(1937-2019) Author. Albert J. Dunlap was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and died in Ocala, Florida.
Sue Kaufman
(1926-1977) Author. Sue Kaufman was born on Long Island, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. She authored the novel “Diary of a Mad Housewife.”
Peter Masterson
(1934-2018) Author. Peter Masterson was born in Houston, Texas, and died in Kinderhook, New York.
Lamin Sanneh
(1942-2019) Scholar. Lamin Sanneh was born in Gambia. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1967. He was the author of more than 20 books and more than 200 articles. He died in New Haven, Connecticut.
Harvey Jacobs
(1930-2017) Novelist. Harvey Jacobs was born in New York City. He contributed to scripts for the television series “Tales from the Darkside” and “Monsters.”
Edward Franc Jones
(1828-1913) Novelist. Edward F. Jones was born in Utica, New York, and died in Binghamton, New York.
Ricky Jay
(1948-2018) Author. Ricky Jay was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Henry Holt
(1840-1926) Publisher, author. Henry Holt was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in New York City.