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Poul Anderson was born on 25 November 1926 in Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The High Crusade (1994) and Prisoners of Gravity (1989). He was married to Karen Kruse. He died on 31 July 2001 in Orinda, California, USA.

Herbie Herbert was born on 5 February 1948 in Berkeley, California. He died on 25 October 2021 in Orinda, California, USA.

Jack Micheline was of Russian-Romanian ancestry and worked as a union organizer before dedicating his life to poetry and painting. Taking his pen name from writer Jack London, he moved to Greenwich Village in the 1950s, where he became a street poet, drawing on Harlem blues and jazz rhythms and the cadence of word music. He lived on the fringe of poverty, writing about hookers, drug addicts, blue collar workers, and the dispossessed. In 1957, Troubadour Press published his first book 'River of Red Wine'; Jack Kerouac wrote the introduction, and it was reviewed by Dorothy Parker in Esquire magazine. Micheline relocated to San Francisco in the early 60s, where he spent the rest of his life and eventually published over 20 books.

Though a poet of the Beat generation, Micheline characterized the Beat movement as a product of media hustle, and hated being described as a 'Beat poet.' He was also a painter, working primarily with gouache in a self-taught, primitive style he picked up in Mexico City. His last publication was 'Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints', published in 1997. He died of a heart attack while riding a BART subway train in 1998.

Cookie Lavagetto was born on 1 December 1912 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for 1947 World Series (1947), The Arthur Murray Party (1950) and I've Got a Secret (1952). He died on 10 August 1990 in Orinda, California, USA.

Stuart Bowyer was born on 2 August 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He is known for Life Beyond Earth (1998) and Contact: The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (1995). He was married to Jane Baker. He died on 23 September 2020 in Orinda, California, USA.

Claudell Washington was born on 31 August 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was married to Cynthia Anita Callaway and Denise Nolden. He died on 10 June 2020 in Orinda, California, USA.