Constance Coiner

Age: 48

Summary: award-winning author and assistant professor of English and general literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton who became a pioneering voice for feminist scholarship on women of the working class and was recognized for her teaching excellence last year, who taught a popular class called "Multicultural Women in the U.S.", which became her trademark course, and who published the book Better Red about the writings of Tillie Olsen and other working-class female writers in the communist era.

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

Born: June 18, 1948

Died: July 17, 1996

Location: East Moriches, New York