Carolyn Heilbrun

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Also Known As	Carolyn Gold Heilbrun • Amanda Cross
Born	January 13, 1926 • East Orange • New Jersey
Died	October 9, 2003 (aged 77) • New York City • New York
Notable Works	“The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty”
Subjects Of Study	literature • androgyny

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

American critic

T.S. Eliot, 1955

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Pound, Ezra

Ezra Pound

American poet

Tillie Olsen

American author

Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

American author

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

American author

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

American author

Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott

American author

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates

American author

Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

American author

James Russell Lowell.

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

American writer

John Updike

John Updike

American author

Thomas Merton, 1959

Thomas Merton

American writer

Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980

Czesław Miłosz

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

American novelist