Leslie Land
(1947-2013) Writer. Leslie Land was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and died in Poughkeepsie, New York. She wrote a newspaper column “Good Food” for 20 years and more than 500 articles for The New York Times.
Type: NY State
Ronald H Coase
(1910-2013) Author. Ronald H. Coase was born in Willesden, England, and died in Chicago, Illinois.
Robert Farrar Capon
(1925-2013) Writer. Robert F. Capon was born in Queens, New York, and died in Greenport, New York.
John Kennell
(1922-2013) Author. John Kennell was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and died in Cleveland, Ohio. He lived as a child in Buffalo, New York, and went to medical school at the University of Rochester.
Kenneth Wilson
(1936-2013) Author. Kenneth Wilson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, and died in Saco, Maine. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Martin Bernal
(1937-2013) Author. Martin Bernal was born in London, England, and died in Cambridge, England.
Diana Chang
(1924-2009) Novelist, poet. Diana Chang was born in New York and died in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. She was married to David Herrmann. She was the winner of a Fulbright Award and a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, and believed to be the first American born Asiatic woman to publish a novel.
Ethel Calvert Phillips
(1882-1947) Author. Ethel Calvert Phillips is buried in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.
Sylvia Jorrin
Sylvia Jorrin is a sheep farmer in Delaware County, New York who has published over 1,000 articles on agricultural subjects over the past 25 years. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She farms almost 100 sheep and 15 goats by herself. She is a widow with two adult children.
Christopher Reeve
(1952-2004) Author. Christopher Reeve was born in New York City and died in Mount Kisco, New York.