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Born January 2, 1938 • Passaic • New Jersey
Died July 20, 1973 (aged 35) • Amarillo • Texas
Notable Works “Amarillo Ramp” • “Spiral Jetty”
Notable Family Members spouse Nancy Holt
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British sculptor, artist, and photographer
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American lawyer, judge, journalist, and novelist
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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Henry David Thoreau
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“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos”
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Henry James
Henry James
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Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
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Tillie Olsen
American author
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James Baldwin
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Joan Didion, 1970
Joan Didion
American author
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
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W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, and activist