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Born March 5, 1932 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died June 3, 2019 (aged 87) • New Jersey
Notable Works “A Day and a Night at the Baths” • “Exit 3, and Other Stories” • “My First Satyrnalia” • “Pagan Days” • “Robert Duncan in San Francisco” • “The Butterfly” • “To Kill a Cardinal”
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Mark Twain
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
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Master of the macabre
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Rita Dove
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James McBride
American author and musician
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