Paul West
(1930-2015) Writer, novelist, essayist, critic. Paul West was born in Eckington, Derbyshire, England, and died in Ithaca, New York.
Type: NY State
Sheldon S. Wolin
(1922-2015) Author. Sheldon S. Wolin was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Salem, Oregon.
Alvin Johnson
(1874-1971) Author. Alvin Johnson was born in Dakota County Nebraska, and died in Nyack, New York. He was co-founder of the New School in New York City.
Carolyn Kaelin
(1961-2015) Author. Carolyn Kaelin was born in Syracuse, New York, and died in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Charles E Fritch
(1927-2012) Author. Charles Fritch was born and grew up in Utica, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. He was a fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer and editor.
John Henry Holland
(1929-2015) Author. John Henry Holland was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He worked for a year and a half at IBM’s main research laboratory in Poughkeepsie, New York.
George Mills Houser
(1916-2015) Author. George Houser was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Santa Rosa, California. As a child, he lived in Troy, New York.
Jerome Heartwood “Brud” Holland PhD
(1916-1985) Author. Jerome Holland was born in Auburn, New York, and died in New York, New York.
Arch Merrill
(1894-1974) Journalist, author, poet. Arch Merrill was born in Sandusky, New York, and died in Rochester, New York. He wrote many articles on history and folklore of the Genesee Valley and the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. He was sometimes called the Poet Laureate of Upstate New York.
Thomas Sobol
(1932-2015) Author. Thomas Sobol was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died in Scarsdale, New York. He was appointed New York State education commissioner in 1987, a post from which he resigned in 1995.