Novelists from New York (state)

The list Novelists from New York (state) includes Whoopi Goldberg, Heather Hunter, Patricia Kennealy, Mickey Rooney and Carroll Baker. The list consists of 1,361 members and 1 sublist.

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State of the United States of America

Novelists from New York City
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Whoopi Goldberg

American actor, comedian, and television personality (born 1955)

Overview: Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author and television personality. A recipient of numerous accolades, she is one ...

Date of birth: 13 November 1955

Age: 68

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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National Arts Club Medal of Honor Recipients 1T

American writers with disabilities 314T

American activists with disabilities 260T
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Craig Ferguson

Scottish-American television host, comedian, author, and actor

Overview: Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American television host, comedian, author, and actor, best known for hosting the CBS late-night talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–14) ...

Date of birth: 17 May 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

Partner: Megan Cunningham-Ferguson (Married)

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The Late Late Show (American talk show) hosts 4T

Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

Disney voice actors 118T
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Billy Dee Williams

American actor and writer

Overview: William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, voice actor, singer, and artist. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early ...

Date of birth: 6 April 1937

Age: 87

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Teruko Nakagami (Married)

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21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

The High School of Music & Art alumni 212T
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Patricia Kennealy

American writer (1946–2021)

Overview: Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (born Patricia Kennely; March 4, 1946 – July 21, 2021) was an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and two series of science ...

Date of birth: 4 March 1946

Date of death: 21 July 2021

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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2021 deaths 9,812T

Jim Morrison 28T

Harpur College alumni 25T
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Mickey Rooney

American, Actor

Overview: Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing ...

Date of birth: 23 September 1920

Date of death: 6 April 2014

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Comedians from Los Angeles 164T

Comedians from Brooklyn 125T

Military personnel from Brooklyn 101T
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Carroll Baker

American actress (born 1931)

Overview: Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is a retired American actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by d ...

Date of birth: 28 May 1931

Age: 93

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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United Service Organizations entertainers 148T

21st-century American Jews 7,687T

Actresses of Irish descent 598T
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Al Roker

American weather presenter, television and radio personality

Overview: Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. (born August 20, 1954) is an American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author. He is the current weather anchor on NBC's Today, and occasionally co-hosts ...

Date of birth: 20 August 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Deborah Roberts (Married)

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21st-century African-American writers 615T

21st-century African-American people 4,994T

American male non-fiction writers 7,389T
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Gloria Vanderbilt

American artist, author, actress, and designer (1924–2019)

Overview: Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (February 20, 1924 – June 17, 2019) was an American artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite.

Date of birth: 20 February 1924

Date of death: 17 June 2019

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Female

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American women fashion designers 282T

Lumet family 9T

20th-century American businesswomen 393T
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Langston Hughes

American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

Overview: James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the t ...

Date of birth: 1 February 1902

Date of death: 22 May 1967

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

Translators of Gabriela Mistral 4T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Jonathan Safran Foer

American novelist

Overview: Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his ...

Date of birth: 21 February 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Jewish vegetarianism 11T

Georgetown Day School alumni 35T

Foer family 4T
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Anthony Bourdain

Chef and food writer

Overview: Anthony Michael Bourdain (June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American chef, book author, journalist, and travel documentarian who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture ...

Date of birth: 25 June 1956

Date of death: 8 June 2018

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Chef

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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Chefs from New York City 15T

Jewish American chefs 15T

2018 suicides 69T
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Tom Tryon

American actor and novelist (1926–1991)

Overview: Thomas Tryon (January 14, 1926 – September 4, 1991) was an American film and television actor as well as a novelist. He is best known for playing the title role in the film The Cardinal (1963), ...

Date of birth: 14 January 1926

Date of death: 4 September 1991

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

People from the Upper West Side 194T
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Mercedes de Acosta

20th-century American poet, playwright, and novelist (1892–1968)

Overview: Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, chiefly notable as a social figure of Manhattan, conducting openly lesbian relationships with many prominent artists and theatre personalities ...

Date of birth: 1 March 1893

Date of death: 9 May 1968

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
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David Benioff

Writer

Overview: David Friedman ( ; born September 25, 1970), better known by his pen name David Benioff, is an American screenwriter and television producer, writer, and director. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss ...

Date of birth: 25 September 1970

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scriptwriter

Gender: Male

Partner: Amanda Peet (Married)

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Writers from Manhattan 74T

American male television writers 1,879T

21st-century American screenwriters 625T
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Truman Capote

American author (1924–1984)

Overview: Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories ...

Date of birth: 30 September 1924

Date of death: 25 August 1984

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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American postmodern writers 134T

American writers with disabilities 354T

20th-century American LGBT people 2,014T
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Stephen Collins

American actor

Overview: Stephen Weaver Collins (born October 1, 1947) is an American former actor, former writer and admitted sexual predator. He is known for playing Eric Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven ...

Date of birth: 1 October 1947

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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20th-century American male writers 6,911T

Novelists from Iowa 127T

Singers from Iowa 75T
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Ruth Chatterton

American actress

Overview: Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961) was an American stage, film, and television actress, aviator and novelist. She was at her most popular in the early to mid-1930s, and in the ...

Date of birth: 24 December 1892

Date of death: 24 November 1961

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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American actresses of French descent 44T

Hollywood Walk of Fame 370T

Actresses of British descent 497T
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Richard Dreyfuss

American actor

Overview: Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (né Dreyfus; born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in popular films between the 1970s and 1990s, including American Graffiti, Jaws, Stand by Me, Close ...

Date of birth: 29 October 1947

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Jewish American male comedians 179T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

Sexual misconduct allegations 94T
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Dan Gilroy

American filmmaker (born 1959)

Overview: Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th ...

Date of birth: 24 June 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

Partner: Rene Russo (Married)

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21st-century American male writers 6,080T

20th-century American male writers 8,854T

Screenwriters from New York (state) 1,248T
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Danielle Steel

American, Novelist

Overview: Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author ...

Date of birth: 14 August 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Novelists from San Francisco 42T

Novelists from New York City 357T

Writers from Manhattan 616T