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Born	1939 (age 87) • Gold Coast
Notable Works	“Fragments” • “KMT: In the House of Life” • “Osiris Rising” • “Remembering the Dismembered Continent: Seedtime Essays” • “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born” • “The Healers” • “The Resolutionaries” • “Two Thousand Seasons”

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