List of people from Montclair, New Jersey

Notable people who were born in or have been residents of Montclair, New Jersey, include:

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Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr.

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Joe Walsh
 
Jenny Owen Youngs

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  1. ^ Dao, James. "Homecoming; The Bill Bradley Campaign as a Celebration and Affirmation of the Garden State", The New York Times, October 24, 1999. Accessed October 18, 2015. "Mark Alexander, 35, was teaching at Seton Hall Law School when Mr. Bradley hired him as his issues director. A former aide to Senator Ted Kennedy, he lives in Montclair."
  2. ^ Reflections on a Lifetime of Achievement Archived November 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, accessed December 21, 2006. "Buzz Aldrin has led an exciting and fascinating life. This timeline covers the highlights of his distinguished career, beginning with his early life in Montclair, New Jersey."
  3. ^ "Dr. Virginia Lee Blocks Visiting Here", The Montclair Times, August 27, 1953. Accessed November 16, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Dr. Virginia Lee Block of San Francisco, Calif., formerly of Montclair, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Frank Block of 14 Forest Street, and her brother, Dr. Max Block of 80 Bellevue Avenue, Upper Montclair."
  4. ^ The Women's Project of New Jersey. Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women, p. 112. Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780815604181. Accessed July 8, 2019. "Stella Stevens Bradford, renowned physician and pioneer in the use of physical therapy to rehabilitate physically handicapped children and adults, was born on June 27, 1871, in Montclair (Essex County), NJ, the eldest child of the Rev. Dr. Amory Howe Bradford and Julia (Stevens) Bradford."
  5. ^ Horner, Shirley. "About Books", The New York Times, November 10, 1985. Accessed February 28, 2011. "Two years ago, H. Bruce Franklin of Montclair, a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, found himself, he recalled in a recent interview, 'making my usual complaint about a course on Vietnam that I teach here: that no adequate documentary history of the war that tore this nation apart for over 10 years was readily available in one volume.'"
  6. ^ Staff. "Q&A with: Colby-Sawyer College president Tom Galligan", New Hampshire Business Review, March 16, 2007. Accessed November 4, 2019. "I went to college, and at that point in my life, I decided I didn’t want to be a lawyer. So I went home to Montclair, N.J., where I’m from originally, and got a job as a lawn doctor."
  7. ^ Dr. Dean Hamer Archived October 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, The Great Lecture Library. Accessed October 2, 2015. "Dr. Dean Hamer was born in Montclair, N.J."
  8. ^ Jordan Harrod, '18, Cornell Engineering. Accessed March 9, 2021. "Hometown: Montclair, NJ"
  9. ^ "Hovey Rites Will Be Held In New Jersey; Educator Had Headed Virginia Union School",Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 31, 1943. Accessed March 3, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Montclair N J— Funeral service for George Rice Hovey president of Virginia Union University from 1905 to 1919 who died at his home here Thursday will be conducted at 3 P. M. Monday at the First Baptist Church of Montclair."
  10. ^ "Kenney, John A., Jr." in Contemporary Black Biography, via Encyclopedia.com, Thomson Gale, 2005. Accessed March 22, 2018. "When the Ku Klux Klan threatened his life and burned a cross on the family's lawn: the Kenney family fled within 24 hours, moving north to Montclair, New Jersey.... After graduating from Montclair High School, Kenney attended Bates College, a college founded in 1855 by Maine abolitionists. "
  11. ^ Morse, Stephen S. "Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008)", Science, March 7, 2008, vol 319, p. 1351.
  12. ^ Broad, William J. "Joshua Lederberg, 82, a Nobel Winner, Dies", The New York Times, February 5, 2008. Accessed February 21, 2012. "Dr. Lederberg was born May 23, 1925, in Montclair, N.J., to Zvi Hirsch Lederberg, a rabbi, and the former Esther Goldenbaum, who had emigrated from what is now Israel two years earlier. His family moved to the Washington Heights section of Manhattan when he was 6 months old."
  13. ^ Jenkins, Cara L., and Raines, Ronald T. Insights on the conformational stability of collagen, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, August 28, 2001. Accessed February 21, 2012. "Ronald T. Raines was born in 1958 in Montclair, NJ. He received ScB degrees in chemistry and biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
  14. ^ The Honorable Kenneth Smith Sr. Archived September 30, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, The HistoryMakers. Accessed July 21, 2015. "The Reverend Dr. Kenneth B. Smith Sr. was born in Montclair, New Jersey, on February 19, 1931."
  15. ^ Pearce, Jeremy. "Leo Sternbach, 97, Valium Creator, Dies", The New York Times, October 1, 2005. Accessed October 17, 2007. "The couple lived in Upper Montclair, N.J., until last year, when they moved to Chapel Hill."
  16. ^ Inventor of Valium and National Inventors Hall of Fame Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Roche, September 30, 2005. Accessed October 17, 2007. "A devoted family man, Sternbach lived with his wife, Herta, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, from 1943 to 2003..."
  17. ^ Bruce E. Wands, Prout Funeral Home. Accessed July 9, 2023. "Bruce Wands, 72, of Verona, New Jersey, passed away on July 6, 2022. Born October 22, 1949 in Montclair, NJ he was the youngest of three children."
  18. ^ Staff. "Dr. Edward Weston Is 85.", The New York Times, May 10, 1935. Accessed April 16, 2012. "Montclair, N. J., May 9. – Dr. Edward Weston, scientist and inventor, whose contributions to the advancement of electrical engineering during the last half century have gained for him world-wide renown, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday today with a dinner ar his home 37 North Mountain Avenue, here."
  19. ^ Fox, Margalit. "Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, a Poet Famous Late in Life, Dies", The New York Times, September 18, 2004. Accessed April 16, 2012. "Mary Virginia Hamilton was born in the Bronx on Feb. 28, 1913, and was raised in Montclair, N.J. She disliked the name Mary and dropped it as soon as she left home."
  20. ^ Brubaker, Paul. "Journalism from both sides now: Newsweek's Jonathan Alter speaks on making news and touching history", The Montclair Times, June 16, 2005. Accessed June 6, 2007. "I prepared sedulously for the interview, Alter remembered, sitting in the living room of his Upper Mountain Avenue home, taking a break from a book he is writing on President Franklin D. Roosevelt."
  21. ^ Vanderhoof, Tricia. "Mondays with Author Halloween treat: Wheeler Antabanez, Matt Kent and dreams", Courier News, October 30, 2016. Accessed September 9, 2019. He grew up in West Caldwell and has lived in Montclair for the past eight years with wife Sara, daughter Star Magick, and a menagerie of species."
  22. ^ Fadool, Cynthia R. Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works, Volumes 61-64, p. 31. Gale Research Company, 1976. ISBN 9780810300286. Accessed September 9, 2019. "Arny, Mary (Travis) 1909- Personal: Born October 13, 1909, in Montclair, N.J."
  23. ^ Martin, Julia. "CNN International anchor Zain Asher says relentless hard work led her to success",The Record, October 28, 2022. Accessed April 15, 2023. "Asher, who now lives in Montclair with her husband, Steve Peoples, a political writer for the Associated Press, and their two young sons, says that people are often eager to learn her mothers' secrets; even her children's teachers would ask her mother for advice for raising their own children."
  24. ^ Jim Axelrod: CBS Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News. Accessed June 5, 2011. "He was born in New Brunswick, N.J. Axelrod was graduated from Cornell University in 1985 with a bachelor of arts degree in history and from Brown University in 1989 with a master of arts degree in history. He and his wife, Christina, live in Montclair, N.J., with their three children."
  25. ^ Namecheck, The Huffington Post, July 27, 2006. Accessed June 6, 2007. "Boehlert, who recently published 'Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush,' will be based out of his home in Montclair, NJ and will start by the end of the summer."
  26. ^ Galant, Debbie. "David Carr, Movie Star", Baristanet, February 4, 2011. Accessed July 13, 2012. "Add this to the list of accomplishments of Montclair's David Carr: movie star. In addition to being a New York Times media columnist, a former drug addict and memoirist and a master tweeter with a following of 295,491, Carr is the star of Andrew Rossi's documentary "Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times," which got tons of buzz at Sundance last week."
  27. ^ Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Ph.D Archived February 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Page One. Accessed October 19, 2012. "Wendy Coakley-Thompson: Back to Life is my first published novel. The context is real. In 1989, a gang of Italians menaced three Black teens in Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, NY, and a Black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death. The story is set in Montclair, NJ, where I spent most of my life in the US."
  28. ^ Nemy, Enid. "Fleur Cowles, 101, Is Dead; Friend of the Elite and the Editor of a Magazine for Them", The New York Times, June 8, 2009. Accessed February 21, 2012. "Ms. Cowles variously gave her birthplace as Boston and Montclair, N.J., her parents as Matthew Fenton and Eleanor Pearl Fenton, and the year of her birth as anywhere from 1910 to 1917. Census records and reminiscences of friends and relatives indicate that she was born on Jan. 20, 1908, in New York City, the daughter of Morris and Lena Freidman, and that her name at birth was Florence. Her family moved to Bloomfield, N.J., when she was very young, and her sister, Millicent (who also later adopted the name Fenton), was born there. She attended high school in Bloomfield and later, according to her own biographical notes, the School of Fine and Applied Arts in New York, which no longer exists."
  29. ^ Staff. "Fleur Cowles: Fleur Cowles, who has died aged – probably – 101, was a formidably creative American journalist and socialite who turned her back on humble origins to make her life's business networking with important people all over the world. She travelled to Persia as the guest of the Shah; Cary Grant was best man at the last of her four weddings; Yehudi Menuhin visited to play at her house in Sussex.", The Daily Telegraph, June 8, 2009. Accessed February 21, 2012. "She was born Florence Freidman in New York on January 26, 1908, if one believes a census of the time; she herself preferred 1910, or best of all 1917. Her father was Matthew Freidman (she said Fenton), who worked in the novelty business (she said a businessman-manufacturer), and her mother, Lena (she said Eleanor) Pearl. Fleur graduated from Montclair High School and went on to the School of Fine and Applied Arts in New York."
  30. ^ Whittemore, Henry. History of Montclair Township: New Jersey; Including the History of the Families who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Prosperity, p. 195. Suburban Publishing Company, 1894. Accessed May 27, 2022.
  31. ^ Holl, John. "Hoboken in the ’70s: Stayin’ Alive", The New York Times, February 25, 2007. Accessed October 22, 2018. "A companion book, From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s ($25), features all the photographs in the exhibition (and quite a few more) and essays by Sada Fretz, a local resident, and Anthony DePalma, a reporter for The New York Times and a Hoboken native who now lives in Montclair."
  32. ^ Eng, Christina. "'On Moving,' by Louise DeSalvo", San Francisco Chronicle, March 29, 2009. Accessed February 21, 2012. "DeSalvo talks also in great detail of her own recent experiences moving from a house in Teaneck, N.J., where she and her husband raised their children, to another one in Montclair, N.J., closer now to their grandchildren."
  33. ^ Smith, Dinitia. "Christopher Durang Explores the Afterlife, Including His Own", The New York Times, November 26, 2005. Accessed June 6, 2007. "For Mr. Durang, there is always the memory of the silent pain that permeated his childhood home in Montclair, N.J."
  34. ^ Ellis, Edward Sylvester, Northern Illinois University. Accessed February 21, 2012. "He lived for some years at West Point while his son was instructor in mathematics there, and later in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. He died while on a vacation trip at Cliff Island, Casco Bay, Maine, June 20, 1916."
  35. ^ Staff. "Edward S. Ellis", The New York Times, June 22, 1916. Accessed February 21, 2012. "His home was in Upper Montclair, N. J."
  36. ^ "Jessie Redmon Fauset" from The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Accessed April 26, 2013.
  37. ^ Yardley, William. "Philip Fradkin, Writer Who Explored Themes of the West, Dies at 77", The New York Times, July 14, 2012. Accessed December 3, 2017. "Philip Lawrence Fradkin was born in Manhattan on Feb. 28, 1935. He grew up in Montclair, N.J., the son of Dr. Leon H. Fradkin, a dentist who had migrated from Russia, and Elvira Kush, an activist who wrote and advocated for disarmament and women's rights."
  38. ^ Cutler, Jacqueline. "Montclair's Dorothea Benton Frank returns with a beach read", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, July 2, 2017. Accessed June 5, 2018.
  39. ^ Staff. "Coolest Suburbs Worth a Visit: Montclair, NJ", Travel + Leisure, August 2010. Accessed February 28, 2011. "Montclair is one of the few New York City suburbs that can legitimately call itself cool. It is home to many New York artists and a growing population of media professionals, including New York Times reporter David Carr and New Yorker contributor Ian Frazier."
  40. ^ Leimbach, Dulcie. "Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, Author of Childhood Memoir, Dies", The New York Times, November 6, 2006. Accessed June 6, 2011. "In their house in Montclair, N.J., servants took care of cooking and gardening, although every child was assigned to look after a younger sibling and performed other tasks."
  41. ^ Herbert, Bob. "In America; Throwing a Curve", The New York Times, October 26, 1994. Accessed February 21, 2012. "In Montclair, N.J., where I grew up in the 1950s and 60s, there was an elderly woman named Mildred Maxwell who would greet the periodic outbursts of segregationists and other racial provocateurs with the angry and scornful comment, 'There isn't a hell hot enough for that man and his ideas.'"
  42. ^ Peters, Jeremy W. "The Young Black Conservative Who Grew Up With, and Rejects, D.E.I.", The New York Times, February 1, 2024. Accessed February 14, 2024. "In his new book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, to be released on Feb. 6, Mr. Hughes recounts what it was like to grow up in the liberal enclave of Montclair, N.J., and then to head to Columbia, where he said the campus culture was fixated on affinity groups, diversity, equity and inclusion programs, microaggressions and 'white privilege.'"
  43. ^ Faculty and Visitors > Special Topics 2011, Montclair State University. Accessed February 28, 2011. "Ken Johnson was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He attended Brown University and the State University of New York at Albany. Johnson is a writer for the arts pages of The New York Times, where he covers gallery and museum exhibits."
  44. ^ Croke, Vicki. "Take The Time To Become Your Dog's Best Friend", The Boston Globe, May 31, 2003. Accessed April 11, 2011. "[Jon Katz] spent a year hanging out with the dog people in his own community of Montclair, N.J., and he dived into stacks of research not only on the human-dog bond but also on bonding itself."
  45. ^ King, Peter. "MMQB Mail: Browns got it right, big night for Byron and why we vote", Sports Illustrated, November 4, 2008. Accessed February 28, 2011. "I have been voting at the Montclair First Ward District 3 polling place for 17 years. Even with presidential elections, we never had a line longer than two or three people. This morning, at 6:48, there was a line of 36 citizens in front of us, many of them New York commuters."
  46. ^ Laser, Michael. "Soapbox; Clearcutting Suburbia", The New York Times, June 20, 1999. Accessed February 6, 2012. "My wife and I moved to Montclair from Manhattan five years ago. We had chosen this house partly because its yard was bordered by wild trees and unkempt hedges."
  47. ^ Marder, Dianna. "This case is culinary: Commissario's favorites", The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 8, 2010. Accessed July 25, 2011. "Some 25 years ago, an English teacher and opera expert originally from Montclair, N.J., felt the lure of the lagoons and adopted Venice as her home. Now Donna Leon, 67, is the celebrated author of 19 international best sellers (more than two million sold) featuring a shrewd but principled police detective by the name of Guido Brunetti – and she is finally rewarding her readers with a cookbook of his favorite recipes."
  48. ^ Adler, Margot. Potter Publisher Predicted Literary Magic, National Public Radio, July 14, 2007. Accessed October 19, 2012. "Scholastic is now a $2-billion company. "Harry Potter" represents about 8 percent of the revenues. But for Margot Siegell, the owner of Margot Sage-EL, the owner of Watchung Booksellers on Montclair, New Jersey, where Levine lives, Arthur Levine's touch is not about financial success."
  49. ^ Italie, Hillel via Associated Press. "Lisa Lucas, head of National Book Foundation, to join Knopf" Archived July 15, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Minneapolis Star, July 15, 2020. Accessed July 15, 2020. "Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation since 2016, has been named senior vice president of the Knopf imprints Pantheon and Schocken Books.... A native of New York City who grew up in Teaneck and Montclair, New Jersey, Lucas has held a variety of positions in the book world, whether publishing Guernica magazine or serving on the literary council of the Brooklyn Book Festival."
  50. ^ Anne's Biography, The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Anne was educated at Stuart Hall, Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures."
  51. ^ Sherman, Ted. "Fantasy writer, former N.J. resident Anne McCaffrey dead at 85", The Star-Ledger, November 23, 2011. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Born in Cambridge, Mass., McCaffrey was raised in New Jersey, where she graduated from Montclair High School."
  52. ^ About Susan Meddaugh Archived September 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Accessed April 11, 2011. Susan Meddaugh was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey.
  53. ^ Baristanet staff "Montclair Brewery and Harlem Brewing Company Honor Gil Noble in Black History Month Collaboration", Baristanet, February 4, 2021. Accessed July 5, 2022. "In honor of February’s Black History Month, Montclair Brewery has collaborated with the Harlem Brewing Company to release the Noble Like It Is porter brewed in honor of Gil Noble, former Harlem, New York and Montclair, New Jersey resident and iconic African American journalist."
  54. ^ Powell, Jim. "Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand: Three Women Who Inspired the Modern Libertarian Movement" Archived May 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Freeman, May 1996, Volume 46 / Issue 5. Accessed February 21, 2012. "Suffering gout and other infirmities, Paterson moved in with two of her remaining friends, Ted and Muriel Hall in Montclair, New Jersey. There she died on January 10, 1961, at age 74. She was buried in an unmarked grave."
  55. ^ Wilson, Jennifer. "The Ideal Place to Disappear: An Interview with Julia Phillips", The Paris Review, May 13, 2019. Accessed February 18, 2020. "Julia Phillips is the author of Disappearing Earth, a crime novel set in this remote peninsula of the Russian Far East, 'sixteen time zones away' from her hometown of Montclair, New Jersey."
  56. ^ Grynbaum, Michael M. "Jodi Rudoren, Veteran Times Journalist, Will Lead The Forward", The New York Times, July 23, 2019. Accessed August 14, 2019. "Jodi Rudoren, one of the highest-ranking women in The New York Times’s newsroom, outside her home in Montclair, N.J."
  57. ^ La Gorce, Tammy. "For Author of Younger Novel, It's Showtime", The New York Times, January 9, 2015. Accessed May 24, 2016. "Ms. Redmond Satran's identification with Ms. Poehler's storytelling owes itself to her own divorce, not yet final, from her husband of 30 years, Richard J. Satran, a business journalist. They have three grown children and, with the exception of sojourns to England and California, have lived in Montclair since the mid-1980s."
  58. ^ Strupp, Joe. "Balancing Act The New York Times's editorial page editor has no lack of opinions." Archived November 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Monthly, December 13, 2010. Accessed April 16, 2012. "Rosenthal, 54, and the father of two, was born in New Delhi, India. Raised in Manhattan, he later lived in Japan, Switzerland, India, Austria and Poland. He and his wife moved to Montclair 13 years ago."
  59. ^ author of four poetry collections: Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP's 2007 Hollis Summers' Prize,[1] Ghazal Games (Ohio University Press, 2011),[2] Foot Faults: Tennis Poems (David Roberts Books, 2016), and Haji as Puppet: an Orientalist Burlesque, which won the Tenth Gate Prize for a Mid-Career Poet (Word Works, 2017).
  60. ^ Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner, eds., Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s (University Press of Mississippi 1988): 234-235. ISBN 9781617034688
  61. ^ Lee Siegel , The Huffington Post. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Lee Siegel is the author, most recently, of Are You Serious: How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly, just out from HarperCollins. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife and two children."
  62. ^ Galant, Debra. "Look Homeward", The New York Times, September 17, 2000. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Richard Wesley, a black screenwriter who lives in Montclair, grew up in the Ironbound section of Newark in an era when everybody's fathers worked in factories and most of the mothers stayed at home."
  63. ^ Staff. "Mystery Plot: Whodunit in Newark?", The New York Times, August 26, 1994. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Ms. Wilson Wesley grew up in Ashford, Conn., and now lives in Montclair, N.J., with her husband and two daughters. But she lived in nearby East Orange in the early 1970s, and Tamara's yellow-and-green Cape Cod is modeled on her old house."
  64. ^ Segedin, Andrew. "Montclair Native Vows To Protect Sources", North Jersey Media Group, April 12, 2013. Accessed December 12, 2013. "Montclair native Jana Winter has made a career out of breaking news."
  65. ^ 'I am not Ms. Perfect. I am Ms. Normal': Cosmetics guru Bobbi Brown honored for exemplary parenting, The Montclair Times, May 10, 2006. "Beauty innovator Bobbi Brown of Montclair stood out for her "what you see is what you get" natural style and classic, down-to-earth flair at the 28th Annual Outstanding Mother Awards luncheon held Thursday, May 4, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City."
  66. ^ a b Pries, Allison. "Two N.J. women who invented the sports bra are being inducted into the Hall of Fame", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, January 19, 2020. Accessed January 4, 2023. "Two New Jersey women — Montclair-natives Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith — and Canadian-born Hinda Miller in the summer of 1977 stumbled upon an idea that would help revolutionize women’s involvement in sports."
  67. ^ Politano, Teresa. "Haute Style Hits the Bullseye", New Jersey Monthly, December 20, 2007. Accessed February 6, 2012. "For Jack McCollough of Montclair (pictured right), success began with a thesis project back in 2002, when he and Lazaro Hernandez were students at the Parsons School of Design."
  68. ^ Gill, Stacey. "Former Top Model Offers Teen Photography Class Archived December 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine," Barista Kids, December 7, 2010. Accessed July 4, 2012. "For two decades fashion model Louise Vyent posed in front of the camera for such magazines as Glamour, Harper's Bazaar and American Vogue, but recently she decided to take her experience and apply it on the other side of the camera. About six months ago the Montclair resident opened up her teen portraiture studio, and now she is offering a photography class for teens and tweens."
  69. ^ Johnston, Andrew. "Mad Men Recap: Season 2, Episode 2, 'Flight 1'", Slant Magazine, August 4, 2008. Accessed February 6, 2016. "The action begins at a party at Paul Kinsey's apartment in Montclair, NJ, about a week after the previous episode (for reasons we'll come to in a bit, this episode is very easy to date specifically)."
  70. ^ Farley, Christopher John. "Infinite Jest: Blogging the Book (Part 5)", The Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2011. Accessed April 3, 2016. "In another section, Mario Incandenza has a funny, aborted, semi-sexual encounter with 'the U.S.S. Millicent Kent, a sixteen-year-old out of Montclair NJ, #1 Singles on the Girls 16's-A squad and two hundred kilos if she was a kilo.'"
  71. ^ Oshinsky, Matthew. "Sopranos On Location", The New York Sun, March 27, 2007. Accessed February 6, 2016. "7: Dr. Melfi's Office: Montclair N.J. – Besides his house and the Bada Bing, Tony spends most of his time in the office of his therapist, Jennifer Melfi, who once prophetically told her favorite patient that 'the center cannot hold.' The office, located on Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair, is a mystery from the outside, but its round interior is well known to Jerseyites."
  72. ^ Hawkins-Simons, Dana. "Montclair Gets Shout Out On HBO's Girls", Baristanet, January 22, 2013. Accessed April 3, 2016. "Marnie Michaels from Montclair, New Jersey! You know you have a terrific little museum there with wonderful Native American artifacts. Yes?"
  73. ^ Anderson, John R. "Dean Of Sculptors.; Thomas Ball of Montclair Is Also Painter and Musician.", The New York Times, May 5, 1910. Accessed July 13, 2018.
  74. ^ "Montclair Native Nanette Carter Shows Her Artwork In Italy", Montclair Local, July 13, 2017. Accessed February 6, 2020. "Nanette Carter with 'Cantilevered #29 (teetering),' one of the works in her one-woman exhibition at the Alessandro Berni gallery in Perugia, Italy. A Montclair native, Carter spent her junior year of college in Perugia and returned this spring for the first time in over 40 years."
  75. ^ Rumbold, Holly. "Jane White Cooke obituary", The Guardian, May 25, 2011. Accessed October 26, 2021. "My mother was born Jane White in Montclair, New Jersey, the daughter of William, an engineer with the General Electric Company, and his wife, Frances."
  76. ^ Raynor, Vivien. "Art; The magnet of Montclair: its attractions on view, The New York Times, December 27, 1981. Accessed February 6, 2012. "By the 1890s, the colony included several sculptors, among them Jonathan Scott Hartley, Inness's son-in-law, and William Couper. It was Couper who built the substantial villa, Poggioridente, an Italianate pile that still stands on Upper Mountain Avenue."
  77. ^ Edna Eicke (1919–1919), Illustrator. Accessed July 22, 2018.
  78. ^ Schwabsky, Barry. "A Haven for Creative Talents, Then and Now", The New York Times, February 16, 1997. Accessed November 11, 2007. "Inness was hardly the first artist to settle in Montclair. Apparently that title is shared by two English-born illustrators, Harry Fenn and Charles Parsons, who arrived in the 1860s."
  79. ^ Macey, Juliet. "Lights, Camera, Flash!", GO, May 13, 2016. Accessed March 11, 2022. "Growing up in Montclair, N.J., Lola Flash was an only child who always walked around with a little camera, snapping photos."
  80. ^ O'Donnell, Chuck. "Montclair man's life as colorful as the comics he draws", The Montclair Times, December 22, 2011, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 7, 2016. Accessed August 7, 2018. "Russ Heath spent most of his childhood sprawled on the floor in his room in Montclair, filling sketchbooks with images of gun-slinging cowboys and ground-shaking tanks, honing a rare talent to realistically render action heroes that would open doors his whole life.... Heath, Class of '45, recalls a Montclair as idyllic as Mayberry, where his dad would take him down to the theater on Saturday afternoons to see the serials. Westerns were their favorites."
  81. ^ John Langley Howard, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Accessed February 5, 2021. "Birth Place: Upper Montclair NJ"
  82. ^ "Montclair Art Museum Gallery Will Be Dedicated to Works by George Inness", Montclair Art Museum. Accessed June 4, 2008. "George Inness settled in Montclair, New Jersey in 1885, living and working there until his death in 1894."
  83. ^ Elizabeth Jones US Chief Coin Designer and Engraver, USA Coin Book. Accessed December 3, 2017. "Elizabeth Jones was born on May 31, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey. During her childhood, she developed a talent and interest in the arts, which would eventually become her career. In 1953, at the age of 18, Elizabeth graduated from the Montclair Kimberley Academy (also known as Kimberley School before 1974)."
  84. ^ An evening with Joe McNally, Thursday, May 29 Archived July 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Connecticut American Society of Media Photographers. Accessed July 10, 2008. "Joe McNally is a native of Montclair, New Jersey. He received his bachelor's and graduate degrees from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He now lives and works in Westport, Connecticut."
  85. ^ Kimmelman, Michael. "Dorothy Miller Is Dead at 99; Discovered American"., The New York Times, July 12, 2003. Accessed January 26, 2008. "Dorothy Canning Miller was born on Feb. 6, 1904, in Hopedale, Mass., and was reared in Montclair, N.J."
  86. ^ Gilmore,Georgette. "Montclair Artist Tom Nussbaum Shows New Exhibition at Aljira", Baristanet, October 15, 2015. Accessed July 9, 2023.
  87. ^ "Elusive Paradise: Michael Yamashita’s Shangri-La (along the tea road to Lhasa)", The Explorers Club. Accessed November 10, 2020. "Michael Yamashita was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, in suburban New York City."
  88. ^ Kear, Lynn; and King, James. Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook, p. 212. McFarland & Company, 2009. ISBN 9780786454686. Accessed September 9, 2019. "Writer Charles Spencer Belden was born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1904. He wrote the play that Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) was based on, along with several Charlie Chan screenplays."
  89. ^ Staff. "Toni's Kitchen 30th Anniversary Benefit Event", New York Daily News. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Toni's Kitchen, a soup kitchen located in Montclair, is holding a fundraiser benefit on Saturday, March 3, at the Women's Club of Montclair. Carla Hall, co-host of the ABC-TV show The Chew and Montclair resident Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News Senior Health and Medical Editor, will co-host the event."
  90. ^ Martin Julia "Breslin & Hamill, HBO doc about veteran NYC journalists, was made in Montclair", The Record, January 23, 2019. "Similar words could describe Steve McCarthy, John Block and Jonathan Alter, the producers of the new HBO film Breslin & Hamill: Deadline Artists, with one difference: the town they call home is Montclair, New Jersey."
  91. ^ Rindfleisch, Terry. "Three first ladies get spotlight treatment in one-woman show", La Crosse Tribune, March 29, 2008. Accessed August 13, 2019. "Bromka, an Emmy Award-winning actress from Montclair, N.J., has poured over the videotapes of the women and has done her research to portray the women in a one-woman show, Lady Bird, Pat & Betty: Tea for Three."
  92. ^ Martin, Douglas. 'Jacqueline Brookes, Actress and Teacher, Dies at 82", The New York Times, May 12, 2013. Accessed February 20, 2024. "Jacqueline Victoire Brookes was born on July 24, 1930, in Montclair, N.J., the daughter of the former Maria Zur Haar and Frederick Jack Brookes, an investment banker."
  93. ^ Staff. "Richard Burgi", Toronto Star, March 6, 1989. Accessed February 28, 2011. "A native of Montclair N.J. Burgi got his feet wet in soaps playing pimp turned good guy Chad Rollo on Another World for two years."
  94. ^ a b Novakovich, Lilana. "Another World's Burgi loves adventure", The Toronto Sun, September 28, 1987. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Burgi hails from Montclair, N.J., his father was Swiss and his mother is of Scottish extraction. "I checked out my family when I was in Europe," he says. 'One of my Swiss relatives discovered gold in this country.' ... His parents were involved in local theatre and the family shared a passion for music, their home often the site of neighborhood jam sessions, with Burgi and brother Chuck on drums.
  95. ^ a b Staff. "Soapy Sales", Baristanet.com, April 25, 2005. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Eva La Rue and John Callahan (pictured below) played soap characters Maria Santos-Grey and Edmund Grey. The pair were married on the show and lauded as one of the soap's all-time favorite couples. In an art imitates life move, La Rue and Grey married and lived here in Montclair with their young daughter."
  96. ^ Corbett, Nic. "Stephen Colbert helps Montclair kick off reading weekend", The Star-Ledger, October 2, 2009. Accessed February 28, 2011. "A Montclair resident and father, Colbert read "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf to help kick off the Montclair Public Library Foundation's weekend-long read-a-thon, The Little Read."
  97. ^ Kuperinsky, Amy. "Julia Louis-Dreyfus headed to N.J. for Stephen Colbert Montclair Film Fest event", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 13, 2019. Accessed October 30, 2019. "The host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a resident of Montclair, Colbert regularly fronts the winter fundraiser as well as parts of the spring film festival."
  98. ^ a b Klein, Alvin. "Baldwin Girl Finds Camelot (on Broadway)", The New York Times, February 22, 1998. Accessed February 6, 2012. "A year and a half ago the couple, married 10 years, and their sons, Sam, 8, and Joe, 4, moved from an apartment in Manhattan to a mansion for the money in Upper Montclair, N.J."
  99. ^ Hamil, Denis. "Scripted for Success; The Co-author of Face/Off Has Screenwriting in His Blood", New York Daily News, July 13, 1997. Accessed July 20, 2017. "Last month, there was a special screening of Face/Off in Cedar Grove, N.J., followed by a party at Lotsa Pasta on Bellevue Ave. where the family and friends of co-writer Michael Colleary honored the local boy made real good. 'I grew up in Montclair,' says Colleary, who in 1990 penned the best action movie of Summer '97 with writing partner Mike Werb."
  100. ^ Staff. "Robert M. Colleary, 82", The Montclair Times, February 23, 2012. Accessed April 15, 2022. "Robert M. Bob Colleary, 82, of Santa Barbara, Calif., formerly of Montclair, died on Sunday, Jan. 8, in Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, after a brief illness. Born and raised in Montclair, Mr. Colleary graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City."
  101. ^ Reich Ronnie. "Move Over, Barrymores - Here Come The Connollys, The Star-Ledger, January 9, 2012. Accessed December 12, 2013. "Growing up in Montclair, the siblings first shared stages at the Essex Youth Theater, at Montclair Kimberly Academy and, one summer, in a production of "Romeo and Juliet" at a local park."
  102. ^ a b Shauger, Mollie. "Montclair filmmakers heading to Academy Awards ceremony", The Record,February 22, 2017. Accessed December 3, 2020. "'And the Oscar goes to...' They are five words only a select number of actors and filmmakers get to hear in person in their lifetimes. Montclair residents Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen can count themselves among that group this year."
  103. ^ a b Williams, Alex. "A Modern Immigrant Finds the Spotlight", The New York Times, June 14, 2013. Accessed December 10, 2013. "For the last few years, Dagmara said, the glittering life was largely confined to children's play dates with actor friends like Liv Tyler at her three-story colonial in Montclair, N.J., while finishing her novel."
  104. ^ Nash, Margo. "Olympia Dukakis and Memories of Montclair", The New York Times, August 10, 2003. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Olympia Dukakis's new autobiography begins in Montclair, where she lived for 30 years and was a founder and the producing artistic director of the Whole Theater Company."
  105. ^ Allen B. DuMont (1901-1965), Montclair Archived January 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. Accessed February 6, 2012. "In 1932, working at a small laboratory in the basement of his home in Upper Montclair, DuMont invented the 'Magic Eye,' a cathode-ray tube that could be used as a visual tuning aid in radio receivers."
  106. ^ Keil, Braden. "Bond Ambition", New York Post, May 3, 2007. Accessed April 30, 2012. "Soap star Beth Ehlers, who was nominated last year for a daytime Emmy, is heading back to New York City after putting in hard time in New Jersey. The mother of two, who plays Harley on Guiding Light, is now listing her 12-room Upper Montclair home for a most reasonable $899,000."
  107. ^ Beckerman, Jim. "It's ugly, but Frankie Faison enjoys life on 'The Wire'", The Record, January 28, 2007. Accessed April 23, 2007. "The veteran actor, who's in his 50s and has been a Montclair resident for 19 years, was already a familiar face in movies..."
  108. ^ Richardson, Clem. "Weathering 'retirement'", New York Daily News, October 30, 2006. Accessed January 9, 2018. "The man who once had a higher Q-rating, or popularity score, than famed newsman Walter Cronkite has officially retired to Boca Raton, Fla., but maintains a house in Montclair, N.J."
  109. ^ Hinckley, David. "Tap-Dance King Savion Glover Sets In Motion A New Show Downtown", New York Daily News, April 20, 1999. Accessed January 9, 2018. "He now lives in Upper Montclair, in a home he bought for his mother, and his two older brothers work with him. Carlton does the lighting for his show, and Abron is one of the dancers in Savion's dance company NYOT, which stands for Not Your Ordinary Tappers, which they aren't."
  110. ^ Longsdorf, Amy. "Cinephiles walk on the wild side in A.C.", Courier-Post, October 6, 2012. Accessed October 19, 2012. "Montclair, Essex County, native Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction) and Billy Zane (Titanic) co-star."
  111. ^ Krebs, Albin. "Sterling Hayden dead at 70; an actor, writer and sailor", The New York Times, May 24, 1986. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Mr. Hayden was named Sterling Relyea Walter when he was born in Montclair, N.J., on March 26, 1916."
  112. ^ Bowie, Stephen. "Random Roles: Anthony Heald on The Silence of the Lambs, Boston Public and Head-Butting Himself", The A.V. Club, March 4, 2015. Accessed April 18, 2015. " 'By '96 my wife and I had been married for 10 years and we had two children, and we were living in Montclair, New Jersey.' "
  113. ^ Zarra, Erica. "Meet Young Frankenstein: As Young Frankenstein's Broadway monster, Shuler Hensley lurches and bellows. But at home in Montclair, he's one big teddy bear.", New Jersey Monthly, August 11, 2008. Accessed April 16, 2012. "After each show, he gets into his Volvo SUV and drives through the Lincoln Tunnel—which exits onto a mile or so of some of the worst pavement in New Jersey—and takes Route 3 home to the big trees and fresh air of Montclair. With his wife, Paula, daughter, Skyler, 8, and son, Grayson, 4, Hensley lives on a main street in a Mediterranean-inspired, 1895 mansion."
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  115. ^ Staff. "Louis Jean Heydt, Actor, Dies In Boston After Playing a Scene; Veteran of Stage and Screen Stricken While Appearing in 'There Was a Little Girl'", The New York Times, January 3, 1960. Accessed October 19, 2012. "Mr. Heydt, a native of Montclair, N.J., started a career in journalism with the old New York World, but in 1927 he turned to the stage, making his debut on Broadway in the role of Harry Jones in The Trial of Mary Dugan."
  116. ^ Maurer, Mark. "Stand-up comedian kicks off Stevens' school year", The Jersey Journal, August 27, 2010. Accessed February 28, 2011. "Despite growing up in Queens, Hofstetter is not a stranger to New Jersey. He lived in Montclair from 2007 to 2009 before moving to New York City, but he still frequents Arthur's Tavern in Hoboken about twice a year."
  117. ^ TV.com, [1] Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed July 10, 2012. "Janet Hubert is currently a resident of Montclair, New Jersey."
  118. ^ "Caption", The Montclair Times, February 21, 1974. Accessed June 7, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Grant Hubley, left, a student at Montclair Academy and a son of Mrs. Julie P. Hubley of South Mountain Ave., and Karen Kelley, right, a student at The Kimberley School, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kelley, of Warren Pl., discuss their new school, a combination of Brookside School, The Kimberley School and Montclair Academy with Richard W. Day, principal of the school."
  119. ^ a b Emling, Shelley. "Surrounded By Soap Opera Stars In Montclair: A soap opera junkie confesses to being starstruck", MontclairPatch, April 25, 2012. Accessed April 30, 2012. "Others around town also said they know of various soap opera stars who currently live — or have lived — in Montclair. Among them are Vincent Irizarry, who played Dr. David Hayward on All My Children, Eva LaRue, who played Maria Santos on All My Children and is now a regular on CSI: Miami, and Jake Weary, who played Luke Snyder on As The World Turns. Deas is married to Margaret Colin, who played Margo Montgomery Hughes on As The World Turns and Eleanor Waldorf-Rose on Gossip Girl. The two moved to Montclair in the late 1990s."
  120. ^ "Prepare to be dazzled by the Amazing Kreskin", Dallas Morning News, March 22, 2007. "Born in Montclair, N.J., Kreskin was fully fascinated with magic by the age of five."
  121. ^ Staff. "Jersey's Amazing Kreskin can foresee it", The Star-Ledger, March 13, 2009. Accessed December 30, 2013. "Before he was Kreskin, though, he was George Joseph Kresge, a little Polish/Sicilian kid born in Montclair in 1935."
  122. ^ Jaeger, Barbara. "N.J. child actresses take their roles to heart: Musical benefits the AIDS fight", The Record, April 28, 1995. "Last year, Leach, a sophomore at Montclair High School, participated in 'Kids Care,' which she said helped raise approximately $25,000 for the AIDS battle."
  123. ^ "Warren Littlefield: Television Svengali" Archived April 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Accessed February 6, 2012. "A native of Montclair, N.J., Littlefield began his career at Westfall Productions in New York City, where he developed and produced prime-time specials and movies. At age 26, he produced "The Last Giraffe," a made-for-television movie that was shot exclusively on location in Kenya."
  124. ^ Nash, Margo. "Jersey footlights", December 8, 2002. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Ms Lopez, who lives in Montclair, did a reading of the play at Montclair High School last year when her son was a senior."
  125. ^ Martin, Antoinette. "Following the Money: Longtime CNBC Co-Anchor Tyler Mathisen reports on the volatile world of finance" Archived April 16, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Montclair Magazine, Spring 2012, p. 45. Accessed April 16, 2012.
  126. ^ Horsburgh, Susan. "Setting His Sights" Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, People, April 22, 2002. Accessed April 16, 2012. "That's when Miller decided to follow his father, John, a National Enquirer reporter (who died in 1985), into journalism. Born in New York City but raised from age 9 in nearby Montclair, N.J., Miller and his older sister Gregg (a private detective who died of diabetes in 1999) went out on stories with their dad, who introduced them to some of the biggest names in both Hollywood and organized crime."
  127. ^ Haili, Selome (August 7, 2021). "Trevor Moore, Comedian and Co-Founder of 'The Whitest Kids U Know,' Dies at 41". Variety. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  128. ^ Pacheco, Patrick. "Theater / Black, White And the Blues / Joe Morton is the first black actor to buy the white painting in `Art.' He also plays the blues."[dead link], Newsday, January 3, 1999. Accessed April 16, 2012. "His favorite sculptors are Brancusi and Nora Chavooshian, Morton's wife. Morton and Chavooshian live in Montclair, N.J. – where they have his-and-her studios (she to sculpt, he to play blues on the guitar) – with their two young children."
  129. ^ Staff. "Say what? Montclair budget soap opera, police on the Q-T3, Bob and the Big Man", The Montclair Times, June 24, 2011. Accessed April 30, 2012. "Montclair attracts more than its fair share of entertainment and media types. And one of them, former Guiding Light star Michael O'Leary, showed up at Tuesday night's Township Council meeting to voice his concern about the municipal budget and spiraling taxes."
  130. ^ Dougherty, Frank. "Radnor Studio 21 GM interviews TV legend 'Gordon' of 'Sesame Street'" Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Main Line Suburban Life, June 22, 2010. Accessed April 16, 2012. "A New Jersey resident, Orman and his wife live in Montclair. They are the parents of four children, the youngest in high school, and five grandchildren."
  131. ^ Mroz, Jacqueline. "Blow to the Head=A Hit at Sundance", New Jersey Monthly, February 20, 2013. Accessed July 15, 2020. "'I was in a place of isolation,' says Passon, reflecting on the months after the baseball incident. She mainly stayed at home in Montclair—where she lives with her partner and their two children—reading and going through old letters and photos."
  132. ^ Associated Press. "`Kumar' Actor Has College Teaching Gig", The Washington Post, March 26, 2007. Accessed October 9, 2007. "The university said Penn, a native of Montclair, N.J., received a bachelor's degree in sociology with a specialization in theater, film and television from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is pursuing a graduate certificate in international security at Stanford University."
  133. ^ "Meet Todd Porter, He's Whiz Kids' Ham – And That Says It All", 16 Magazine, May 1984. "Todd, in fact, still calls Montclair, New Jersey Home. That's where the 15-year-old was born (on May 15, 1968)"
  134. ^ Christina Ricci, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 7, 1993. "Hometown: Born in Santa Monica; moved to Montclair, N.J. as a child"
  135. ^ Staff. "Obituary: Rosemary Rice Merrell, 87, started in TV and radio", New Canaan Advertiser, August 21, 2012. Accessed September 8, 2014. "Born on May 3, 1925, in Montclair, N.J., she was the daughter of the late Albert and Laura Rogers Rice."
  136. ^ Slotnik, Daniel E. "Rosemary Rice, Oldest Daughter of TV's 'Mama,' Dies at 87", The New York Times, August 22, 2012. Accessed October 19, 2012. "Rosemary Rice was born on May 3, 1925, in Montclair, N.J. She appeared in Broadway shows like Gypsy Rose Lee's 1943 comedy, "The Naked Genius," and on the radio in soap operas and mystery shows."
  137. ^ Katzban, Nicholas. "A cinema disobedient", The Montclair Times, May 5, 2016. Accessed August 17, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Ben Rosenfield, who played Bertram Flusser, Marcus' bohemian roommate, thinks it's a possibility, if only for the protagonist's age.... 'It's definitely a first love for Marcus, and a first love is a really complicated one,' said Rosenfield, who grew up in Montclair."
  138. ^ Rose, Lisa. "Montclair filmmaker, Metuchen couple react to release of West Memphis Three", The Star-Ledger, August 19, 2011. Accessed April 16, 2012. "Montclair filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky was home in New Jersey when he heard about a surprise hearing today for three convicted killers in Arkansas, whose story he's been chronicling since 1993."
  139. ^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Elaine Stewart, Sultry 1950s Actress, Dies at 81", The New York Times, June 28, 2011. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Elsy Steinberg was born in Montclair, N.J., on May 31, 1930. She was a teenager when she signed a contract with the Conover modeling agency and changed her name."
  140. ^ Orel, Gwen. "Montclair Film Festival: Montclair's Sophia Takal in 'Wild Canaries'", The Montclair Times, May 3, 2014. Accessed September 8, 2014. "Wild Canaries, written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine, starring Levine and his wife, Montclair's own Sophia Takal, has the feel of a screwball comedy."
  141. ^ Pace, Eric. "Michelle Thomas, 30, Actress On TV Soap Opera and Sitcoms", The New York Times, December 28, 1998. Accessed February 6, 2012. "She was born in Boston, Mass., grew up in Montclair, N.J., and graduated from West Essex High School in North Caldwell, N.J."
  142. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Dallas Townsend, 76, CBS Radio News Anchor", The New York Times, June 2, 1995. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Dallas S. Townsend Jr., who wrote and anchored the morning CBS radio news roundup for 25 years, died yesterday at Montclair Community Hospital in New Jersey. A former resident of Montclair, he was 76 and lived in Sarasota, Fla., after retiring in 1985."
  143. ^ Martin, Julia. "Adam Wade, TV pioneer and longtime Montclair resident, dies at age 87", The Record, July 19, 2022. Accessed July 21, 2022. "Adam Wade, who had a string of Billboard Top 10 hits in the 1960s and appeared in many films, plays and TV productions, including as the first Black host of a TV game show, died in Montclair on July 7 at age 87.... Adam and Jeree Wade moved to Von Breeman Court in Montclair in 1989. They married earlier that year, just a few months after meeting at the club Sweetwaters, where Wade was singing and his future wife also sang."
  144. ^ Emling, Shelley. "Confessions Of A Soap Opera Junkie", The Huffington Post, March 18, 2013. Accessed November 17, 2014. "Later, my neighbors told me they knew of all sorts of soap opera stars who currently live -- or who have lived -- in Montclair. Among them are Vincent Irizarry, who played Dr. David Hayward on All My Children; Eva LaRue, who played Maria Santos on All My Children and who later became a regular on CSI: Miami; and Jake Weary, who played Luke Snyder on As The World Turns."
  145. ^ Martin, Antoinette. "On Tobacco Road, It's a Tougher Sell", The New York Times, February 8, 2004. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Eighteen months ago, Mary Alice Williams, a broadcaster with WCBS radio, bought a stately 80-year-old, five-bedroom colonial from a friend -- before it was listed on the exceedingly competitive Montclair, N.J., market, where it would probably have triggered a bidding war."
  146. ^ Neglia, Ashley V. "Mixing Media", New Jersey Monthly, June 9, 2008. Accessed October 19, 2021. "Williams lives in Montclair with her husband of ten years, Kevin Hunter, and their 7-year-old son, Kevin."
  147. ^ Kaulessar, Ricardo. "Tom Perrotta to talk about turning novels into movie and TV successes", The Record, March 13, 2018. Accessed June 7, 2018. "he Union County native, who now resides in Massachusetts, will discuss the novel-to-movie transformation with actor and Montclair resident Patrick Wilson."
  148. ^ Schindehette, Susan. "An Excellent Dude Goes to Hell; Bill & Ted's Broadway-Trained Alex Winter Takes Life One Awesome Step at a Time" Archived September 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, People, August 12, 1991. Accessed September 8, 2014. "Soon after, he was on Broadway in The King and I with Yul Brynner and at 14 was soaring as John Darling in Peter Pan with Sandy Duncan. After graduating from high school in Montclair, N.J. (where he moved with his mother after her divorce), Alex signed up at New York University film school, only to drop out because of 'complete financial breakdown.'"
  149. ^ Filichia, Peter. "Kim Zimmer takes the lead in 'Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods'", The Star-Ledger, August 27, 2010. Accessed July 25, 2011. "'My three kids have all left the house,' says the 55-year-old actress. 'My daughter is a registered nurse. One of my sons is finishing up at Monmouth University while my other son is in L.A. as an actor. So my husband (actor/director A.C. Weary) and I are going to sell our home in Montclair and get something smaller.'"
  150. ^ Araton, Harvey. "When Suds Subside", The New York Times, November 6, 2009. Accessed December 30, 2013. "Ms. Zimmer had played the tempestuous Reva Shayne Lewis since 1983, with one five-year break, while nesting more conventionally with her husband, the director A. C. Weary, and their three children in Montclair, N.J."
  151. ^ Klein, Alvin. "Too Hot for 'Antigone,' so They Compromised", The New York Times. July 27, 1997. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Olympia Dukakis returns to New Jersey more than once a year. She lives here, with her husband, Louis Zorich. After wrapping up a television movie or a theatrical release, she comes back to Montclair, where she once ran the Whole Theater, a benchmark in the state's professional theater memory."
  152. ^ a b Staudter, Thomas. "Making Jazz and Family, Home and the Road Work Together", The New York Times, September 9, 2001. Accessed September 18, 2017. "Her luggage already packed for a late afternoon flight to San Francisco, Geri Allen, a jazz pianist, still had several precious hours remaining before her departure out of Newark, so she was filling the morning in the company of three children, ages 3 to 11. Ms. Allen's husband, Wallace Roney, a trumpeter, had returned home after midnight from an evening rehearsal at Carnegie Hall, and to respect his need to sleep, mother and children romped in the yard until growling stomachs sent them back inside to the breakfast table.... Ms. Allen and Mr. Roney have lived in their three-story frame house in Montclair, a short trip from Manhattan, since 1991."
  153. ^ Iton, Richard. In search of the Black fantastic: politics and popular culture in the post-Civil Rights era, p. 236. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-19-517846-7. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Perhaps ironically, these guitarists were usually African Americans. The first musician to fill this role, Al Anderson, a native of Montclair, New Jersey, recollects, 'I was in a funny position with the Wailers. I was the white cat in the band, the Yank, the American guy fuckin' up the music by playing loud rock and roll.'"
  154. ^ Taylor, Chuck. "Off Track: David Bendeth", Billboard, November 3, 2001. Accessed September 8, 2014. "Of course, it helps that they're all less than 4 inches long, displayed in cases, closets, and shelves all over his basement in Montclair, N.J."
  155. ^ Martin, Douglas. "Jackie Cain, of the Jazz Duo Jackie and Roy, Dies at 86", The New York Times, September 18, 2014. Accessed September 18, 2017. "Jackie Cain, who teamed with her husband, Roy Kral, to form probably the most famous vocal duo in jazz history, melding popular tunes and sophisticated harmonies for more than half a century, died on Monday at her home in Montclair, N.J. She was 86."
  156. ^ a b c "The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats", The Star-Ledger, September 28, 2003, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2008. Accessed September 15, 2017. "Ted Curson -- Long-time Montclair resident Curson is a bold trumpeter who has performed and/or recorded with Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and the Spirit of Life Ensemble.... Oliver Lake -- Lake, a longtime resident of Montclair, is a formidable alto saxophonist and composer of the jazz avant-garde."
  157. ^ Flying High, Shoutweb, August 21, 2000. Accessed June 27, 2013. "Robert DeLeo: Dean and I are from New Jersey. I was born in Montclair."
  158. ^ Rees, Dafydd; and Crampton, Luke. Rock Stars Encyclopedia, p. 377. DK Publishing, 1999. ISBN 9780789446138. Accessed September 8, 2014. "The following year, Valli joins the Variety Trio, a vocal group comprising Hank Majewski and brothers Nick and Tommy DeVito (b. June 19, 1936, Montclair. NJ). working at the Bellbrook Tavern and El Morocco Club."
  159. ^ Fowler, Damian. "Michael Fabiano, the Metropolitan Opera’s High-Flying Leading Man", Vanity Fair, March 2, 2017. Accessed June 27, 2019. "Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Fabiano believes in the notion of opera as a populist art form—for everybody."
  160. ^ Ivers, Dan. "Hip-hop community mourns loss of N.J.-born rapper Hussein Fatal", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, July 13, 2015. Accessed May 25, 2016. "The sudden death of Montclair native and rapper Hussein Fatal has been met with despair from members of the hip-hop community in Jersey and beyond."
  161. ^ Coyne, Kevin. "It Was a Very Good Year", New Jersey Monthly, February 4, 2008. Accessed February 6, 2012. "The limos arrived on Edgewood Terrace in Montclair one summer weekend in 1969, invited but not quite expected. The house belonged to Bob Gaudio, the John Lennon of the Four Seasons, who had been rehearsing some new songs in New York with a singer he had never worked with before."
  162. ^ Testa, Jim. "Pinegrove gets introspective but also expresses alarm about environment on new album ’11:11′", NJArts.net, January 29, 2022. Accessed March 29, 2022. "Childhood friends Hall and drummer Zack Levine grew up in Montclair and formed Pinegrove in 2010, with a trajectory similar to the Front Bottoms, making do-it-yourself recordings and playing all-ages spaces and house shows, building a devoted following even before attracting the attention of a label."
  163. ^ Entertainment Desk. "Jazz notes: Sinatra tribute, Billy Hart, Los Mas Valientes, Branford Marsalis", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 6, 2011. Accessed September 18, 2017. "Jazz musicians like to call Montclair drummer Billy Hart 'Jabali,' which in Swahili means 'moral strength': He plays every beat as if his, and our, lives depend on it."
  164. ^ Staff. "Herman Hupfeld, 57, Composer Of Songs", The New York Times, June 9, 1951. Accessed September 18, 2017. "Herman Hupfeld, composer of popular songs, died yesterday in his home at 259 Park Street, Montclair, N.J. His age was 57."
  165. ^ Kozinn, Allan. "Dorothy Kirsten, a Lyric Soprano, Is Dead at 82", The New York Times, November 19, 1992. Accessed February 6, 2012. "Miss Kirsten was born into a musical family in Montclair, N.J., on July 6, 1910 (although she gave her birth year variously as 1917 and 1915). Her mother was an organist and music teacher."
  166. ^ Gurewitsch, Matthew. Opera's Populist, New York, August 7, 1995. Accessed January 3, 2015. "Every morning, a stocky 65-year-old named Vincent La Selva sets out from his cedar-shingled ranch house in Montclair, New Jersey, with a stuffed briefcase and an air of invincible purpose."
  167. ^ Gene Lake, Drummerworld. Accessed September 18, 2017. "Since then he has made his home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey."
  168. ^ Cannon, Bob. "Oliver Lake brings Big Band to the Montclair Public Library", The Montclair Times, April 7, 2016. Accessed September 18, 2017. "Lake, a Montclair resident since 1989, brings his adventurous Big Band to the Montclair Public Library for a rare hometown concert on Saturday, April 9, at 2 p.m."
  169. ^ Binkowski, Carol J. Joseph F. Lamb: A Passion for Ragtime, p. 16. McFarland & Company, 2012. ISBN 9780786490790. Accessed February 6, 2016.
  170. ^ "Obituary: Reggie Lucas", Montclair Local, May 25, 2018. Accessed July 15, 2020. "Reggie Lucas, a guitarist, songwriter, producer, and longtime Montclair resident, died of complications resulting from heart disease on May 19, 2018 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The musician, who played with Miles Davis and helped to launch Madonna’s career, was 65."
  171. ^ Michalitsianos, Joseph. "‘Lukas and Berube’ Montclair’s Newest Healthy Pet Market Provides Treats And So Much More.", The Montclair Dispatch, April 10, 2018. Accessed December 17, 2019. "Lukas, a young, Montclair born-and-raised animal-loving former Veterinarian Support staff member, and Berube, a formerly retired VP are not your average business partners."
  172. ^ Staff. "Not Just All That Jazz, Bassist and booker Christian McBride is a rare jazzman with an approving ear for hip-hop.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 15, 2008. Accessed April 30, 2012. "Christian McBride, the wunderkind bassist, is finally having a middle-aged thought.... Speaking by phone the other day after a snowstorm in Santa Fe, N.M., McBride said he's keen to spend more time at home in Montclair, N.J., even when the plumbing breaks."
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  175. ^ "Anwar: Out!", The Montclair Times, April 28, 2005. "'A member of the MHS Class of 1997 and a township resident for five years', Robinson's run from one of hundreds of thousands of contestants to the last seven finalists ended Wednesday, April 20, after he received the fewest votes among the remaining contestants."
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  177. ^ Rose, Lisa. "Duncan Sheik gets his Jersey on in South Orange", The Star-Ledger, March 8, 2010. Accessed November 18, 2011. "he Montclair native put together demo versions of the songs, and label executives from Sony Music were impressed enough to release the collection as an album last year.Sheik will perform selections from "Whisper House" and faves from his "Barely Breathing" days when he visits the South Orange Performing Arts Center on March 18 at 8 p.m."
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  225. ^ "Montclair Resident Imani Oakley Enters Running For 10th Congressional District", Montclair Local, July 6, 2021. Accessed July 16, 2021. "Oakley was born at St. Peter’s Hospital in New Brunswick and raised in Montclair, New Jersey by a single working mother, the announcement said. After graduating Howard University School of Law, Oakley went on to serve as a constituent’s advocate in the U.S. Senate, a deputy chief of staff in the State Legislature and the legislative director for the New Jersey Working Families Alliance."
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