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Born	December 6, 1919 • Antwerp • Belgium
Died	December 21, 1983 (aged 64) • New Haven • Connecticut
Notable Works	“Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism” • “Wartime Journalism, 1939–1943”
Movement / Style	Yale School

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