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Born: 1951 Ohio connection: Birth Hudson A writer with a preference for manual typewriters, Ian Frazier was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1951 and grew up in Hudson, Ohio. He was the eldest of five children born to David (a Standard Oil research chemist) and Margaret Kathryn Hursh Frazier (a high school teacher). Before graduating with …

Born: 1958 Ohio connection: Resident Worthington Born in New York, NY, Kathy Fagan received an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD in English from the University of Utah. In 2017, she was named Ohio Poet of the Year. Her first book, The Raft (1985), was a National Poetry Series selection and her second book, Moving …

Born: 1958 Ohio connection: Birth Columbus Michael Duffy was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.  He graduated from Oberlin College in 1980. Duffy served as Time magazine’s Washington bureau chief from 1997 until 2005, when he was named assistant managing editor. Previously, he was a national political correspondent, and, from 1986 to 1996, covered Congress and both the …

Born: July 20, 1923 Died: February 11, 2010 Ohio connection: Birth Lakewood Born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1923, Mary Dowling Daley’s father, Thomas Dowling, directed circulation for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, including the Cleveland Press. She moved many times as a child and an adult, helping to organize a rent strike at a housing project in Asheville, N.C. She …

Born: 1938 Ohio connection: Birth Akron John Wesley Dean III was born in 1938 to John (a businessman) and Sara Dean in Akron, Ohio. Dean grew up in Marion, Ohio. He attended Staunton Military Academy, Colgate University, 1957-59; and earned a B.A. from the College of Wooster in 1961. He did graduate study at American …

Born: 1952 Ohio connection: Birth Cincinnati Author, screenwriter, Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cunningham grew up in Cincinnati and La Canada, California. He was educated at Stanford University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature in 1975. He then went on to earn an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in …

Born: 1946 Ohio connection: Birth Dayton Chris Crutcher was born in Dayton, Ohio but didn’t stay there long. His father John (Crutch) had decided to leave his United States Air Force career (after piloting more than 30 successful B-17 bombing missions in World War II). At only six weeks old Chris and his older brother …

Born: October 26, 1946Died: May 22, 2020 Ohio connection: Birth Mount Vernon Robb Reavill Forman was born in 1946 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. Oliver Duane (a neurosurgeon) and Helen (neé Ransom) Forman. In 1950, she moved with her family to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but she did not lose her connection to Ohio. Robb Forman …

Born: 1958 Ohio connection: Birth Columbus Tracey E. Dils was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Lawrence Albert (a physician) and Grace (a homemaker; maiden name, Shaffer) Dils. She was raised in Granville and earned her B.A. at College of Wooster in 1980.  As a teenager she won a national short story contest.  Later, a …