Elihu Root
(1845-1937) Author. Elihu Root was born in Clinton, New York, and died in New York City.
Type: NY State
Galway Mills Kinnell
(1927-2014) Poet. Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Sheffield, Vermont. He received a master’s degree from the University of Rochester.
Lillian Roth
(1910-1980) Author. Lillian Roth was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in New York City.
Msgr Lorenzo Albacete
(1941-2014) Author. Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and died in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He wrote articles about religion for the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, and he was a professor of theology at St. Joseph Seminary and lived in Yonkers, New York.
S Donald Stookey
(1915-2014) Author. S. Donald Stookey was born in Hay Springs, Nebraska, and died in Rochester, New York.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
(1916-2014) Novelist. Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Palisades, New York.
Mervyn Wilfred Susser
(1921-2014) Author. Mervyn Susser was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and died in Hastings-On-Hudson, New York. He became chairman of the division of epidemiology at Columbia University in 1966.
John Mack Carter
(1928-2014) Editor. John Mack Carter was born in Murray, Kentucky, and died in Bronxville, New York. He had been editor of McCall’s, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping.
Mary Lea Bandy
(1943-2014) Author. Mary Lea Bandy was born in Evanston, Illinois, and died in White Plains, New York.
Thomas Berger
(1924-2014) Author. Thomas Berger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Nyack, New York. He authored more than twenty novels.