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Also Known As	Josephine Winder Boylan • Josephine Winder Jacobsen
Born	August 19, 1908 • Canada
Died	July 9, 2003 (aged 94) • Maryland
Title / Office	poet laureate (1971-1973)
Notable Works	“The Shade-Seller”

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