Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
nobel prize in literature, Nobel Prize, From Houston, English, From Lorain, Ohio, Princeton University…American women writer, song of solomon, American, american literature, African American
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Milton Babbitt

Milton Babbitt

male, 93 years old
Juilliard School faculty, Jewish, serialism, Classical composer, serial, Classical musician…American, Jewish American, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts, Editorial Board of Perspectives, AmericanAcademyofArts
Milton Byron Babbitt (born May 10, 1916) is an American composer. He is particularly noted for his pioneering serial and electronic music.
John Ashbery

John Ashbery

male, 82 years old
New York School poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, poet, LGBT writer, from the United States, gay…American, Poetry Society of America, AmericanAcademyofArts
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet who has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of...
Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

male, 53 years old (NYC, New York, United States)
Jewish person, LGBT writer, from the United States, LGBT, Juilliard School faculty, Mother Courage and Her Child…Jewish American, American, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, AmericanAcademyofArts
Mr. Kushner is a leading playwright and a major voice in American Theatre who has won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, two Tony Awards for Best Play and...

Charles Wright

male, 74 years old
poet, American, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, University of Virginia, won the Pulitzer Prize, AmericanAcademyofArts…Academy of American Poets, University of Iowa
Charles Wright was born in Pickwick, Tennessee on August 25th 1935. He spent his youth and early adulthood in eastern Tennessee and western North...
Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

male, 72 years old
author, Guns, Germs, and Steel, collapse, Evolutionary biologist, Pulitzer Prize winner, geography…University of California, Los Angeles, National Medal of Science, National Medal of Science recipient, University of California, Los Angeles faculty, American
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works...
Charles Wuorinen

Charles Wuorinen

male, 71 years old
Trinity School, The Group for Contemporary Music, New York Times, American, gay, fractal geometry…AmericanAcademyofArts, Professor of Composition at Rutgers University, University of Iowa, University, American Composers Orchestra, State University of New York
Charles Wuorinen is an American composer. Co-founder of The Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his...
Donald Bren

Donald Bren

male, 77 years old (Newport Beach, California, United States)
from Newport Beach, California, Irvine Company, orange county, American, Jewish person, philanthropist…University of Washington, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, Irvine, The Orange County Museum of Art, Jewish American
Donald Leroy Bren (born 1932) is a US real estate mogul born in Los Angeles, and currently residing in Newport Beach, CA. He is the son of...
Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz

male, deceased (2006) (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Anthropologist of religion, Death from surgical complications, Anthropologist, Clifford James Geertz, Institute for Advanced Study, writer…Historian of Southeast Asia, American, american anthropological association, University of California, AmericanAcademyofArts
Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study,...