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Born June 5, 1915 • New York City • New York
Died June 5, 1998 (aged 83) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study American literature
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Marie Ponsot
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William H. Gass
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Donald Hall
American poet, essayist and critic
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Leon Edel
American critic and biographer
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Hayden Carruth
American poet and literary critic
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John Gardner
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American baseball commissioner
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Master of the macabre
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
American critic and scholar
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson
American writer
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
American critic
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom
American literary critic and author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
American writer
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H.L. Mencken
American writer