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Walter Liedtke

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(1945-2015) Author. Walter Liedtke was a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was killed in a train crash in Valhalla, New York.

Ann Marcus

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(1921-2014) Writer. Ann Marcus was born in Little Falls, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Marcus was a writer for several television programs including “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”

John Curtis Chamberlain

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(1772-1834) John Curtis Chamberlain was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and died in Utica, New York. He wrote a series of essays as The Hermit which appeared for a year or more in “The Farmer’s Museum” beginning in the summer of 1796.

Carleton Mabee

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(1914-2014) Biographer. Carleton Mabee was born in Shanghai, China, and died in Gardiner, New York. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Samuel F. B. Morse.

Charles Davenport Champlin

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(1926-2014) Critic, memoirist. Charles Champlin was born in Bath, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. He was a movie critic for The Los Angeles Times from 1967 until 1980, and also reviewed books.

Carolyn Ashley Kizer

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(1924-2014) Poet. Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington, and died in Sonoma, California. Ms. Kizer studied at Sarah Lawrence College and at Columbia University.