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Also Known As	Leslie Aaron Fiedler
Born	March 8, 1917 • Newark • New Jersey
Died	January 29, 2003 (aged 85) • Buffalo • New York
Notable Works	“Love and Death in the American Novel”

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American author

Gregory Rabassa

American translator

Alfred Kazin

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Marie Ponsot

American writer, critic, teacher, and translator

William H. Gass

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Donald Hall

American poet, essayist and critic

Leon Edel

American critic and biographer

Elizabeth Hardwick

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Hayden Carruth

American poet and literary critic

John Gardner

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W. Jackson Bate

American biographer

Mario Vargas Llosa

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Helen Archibald Clarke

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

American baseball commissioner

T.S. Eliot

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Vladimir Nabokov

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George Santayana

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