WRITERS, REPORTERS & EDITORS 

Piers Anthony
Science Fiction Writer

Richard Bartlett
Director, Actor, FILM Writer, Producer Date of birth (location) 1922.  Date of death (details) 1994,  Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA.

June Bierman
Author, Books on Diabetes

Fran Carpentier
PARADE Magazine Editor

Sylvia Chase
ABC News Reporter

Rodolfo Garcia
NEWS:Sunday March 12,2000
 MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Rodolfo Garcia, an Associated Press reporter who
helped chronicle  Nicaragua's emergence out of civil war, a papal visit, volcanoes and floods, died Saturday after a long illness.  He was 58.  Garcia joined The Associated Press in Managua in 1986 after working for Radio Nicaragua, where he was  director of short-wave broadcasts, and after helping found a local news agency, Agencia de Noticias Nueva  Nicaragua.  For the AP, he covered the war between the Sandinista government and Contra rebels, the Sandinistas' loss  of power at the ballot box and the country's sometimes turbulent effort to put years of war behind it.  He also reported on volcanic eruptions, the 1996 visit of Pope John Paul II and the ravages of Hurricane Mitch   in 1998.   Garcia was born in Nandasmo, a town about 15 miles south of Managua. He attended the National  Autonomous University of Nicaragua.  Garcia suffered a series of illnesses last year, including diabetes and cancer.  Survivors include his wife, Ana Leonor Hernandez, and four daughters. 

Linda Goodman
Horoscope Book Author  Goodman's 1968 Sun Signs the first astrology book to scale
the New York Times best-seller list DIED 11-6-95 Death due to diabetes complications

Ernst Günther
Actor, director, writer Date of birth 3 June 1933,In Karlskrona, Blekinge, Sweden
Date of death 8 December 1999, Glemmingebro, Sweden

Jim Hamblin
California Newsman

Ernest Hemingway
20th Century Novelist

Phebe Robinson Jacobsen
NEWS:4-22-2000 ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Phebe Robinson Jacobsen, an archivist who
helped ``Roots''  author Alex Haley determine that his ancestor Kunta Kinte landed here, died  Wednesday of complications from diabetes. She was 78.  Jacobsen and Haley began corresponding in 1967, after he asked her for help with his genealogical research.  It was Jacobsen who dug up a Maryland Gazette advertisement from 1767 at the  Maryland State Archives. The ad announced the arrival of the Lord Ligonier in  Annapolis on Sept. 29, 1767. The ship carried ``a Cargo of Choice, Healthy Slaves,''  the ad said. Among them was Kunta Kinte, the inspiration for Haley's Pulitzer  Prize-winning 1976 historical novel, which traced 10 generations of his family from  Gambia to the United States.  Through the course of research for the book, Jacobsen and Haley became close  friends, said Chris Haley, associate director of research services at the archives and   the late author's nephew.   ``She would help give a sense of what life for African-Americans, free or enslaved,
 was like during Colonial times in Maryland,'' he said. ``It just happened that my uncle
 was someone who hit big with the story that he was researching, but she would help
 anyone who asked a question.'' 

Walt Kelly
writer,animator ,BORN: 25 August 1913, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA DIED:19 October 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA. (diabetes complications)

Leo Kirch
German TV

 Lyle Leverich
Author of what leading critics called the definitive  biography of playwright Tennessee Williams, has died from complications of diabetes. He was  79.  Leverich was working on a second and final volume on Williams when he died Dec. 17,1999 at a  hospital.  Williams authorized Leverich to write his biography and gave him access to unpublished  diaries, letters and manuscripts after the two men struck up a friendship in 1976.  Leverich first met Williams when producing the playwright's ``The Two-Character Play'' in  Marin County. Williams visited several times to supervise the production, which was a critical  and popular success.  Leverich did not begin working in earnest on the biography until 1983, when Williams died at  the age of 71 by choking on the cap from a bottle of eyedrops.  ``Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams,'' was published in 1995 by Crownand was met with  praise from both critics and renowned playwrights.  Leverich was born to a Long Island family that reportedly lost its real estate fortune in the  1920s, a fate that led to his parents' divorce. As a child, Leverich staged plays in the family  basement. He later dabbled in journalism and playwrighting before joining the Navy and  fighting in the South Pacific during World War II.  After the war, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and went into the screenwriting and  bookselling businesses. 

Gloria Loring's--son Brennan Thicke
Actress, Singer Played Liz Chandler on "Days Of Our Lives" Divorced from Alan Thicke of "Growing Pains Author of THE KIDS, FOOD AND DIABETES FAMILY COOKBOOK,PARENTING A DIABETIC CHILD,PARENTING A DIABETIC CHILD - THE VIDEO Gloria's son Brennan is a Diabetic Brennan is studying film in college Gloria She serves on the board of directors for the Juvenile Diabetes Association Brennan is  Insulin dependent TYPE 1 Juvenille 

Steve McCaffery
Canadian Author/Poet.Mr. McCaffery is a Type 1 Diabetic. Info supplied by Brian Stefans.

Connie Pirner
Author She has been a special ed and regular ed teacher. She is a teaching consultant for National Geographic and spent the summer of 1996 on an expedition to Thailand. She is the author of Even Little Kids Get Diabetes, published by Albert Whitman. She is a singer, quilter and baker.

Mario Puzo
Novelist, "The Godfather"

Anne Rice
Author, Date of birth (location)  4 October 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Writer of the Book Interview with the Vampire (1994) and others.Recently Diagnosed. INSULIN DEPENDENT 

Sue Schofield
U.K. CompuServe Author

H.G. Wells
Writer, Novelist