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Born	August 21, 1941 • New York City • New York
Died	September 11, 2019 (aged 78) • Tucson • Arizona
Notable Works	“Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Method, and Politics in Feminist Literary Criticism” • “The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860” • “The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters”

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