Henry Nash Smith Papers 1927-1986

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut – d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American abolitionist and author. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher who preached against slavery. She is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It became an instant and controversial best-seller, both in the United States and abroad. The novel had a major impact on Northerners' attitudes toward slavery and by the beginning of the Civil War had sold more than a million copi...

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly befo...

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017

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American poet and editor of Art & Literature. From the description of The Tennis Court Oath galley proof, 1961. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122685058 The letters cover a span starting two days after Ashbery and Gregg graduated from Deerfield Academy, and continue through the following summers and during a period of time when Gregg was drafted into the Army and served in postwar Eur...

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835, the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger . Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contr...

Jones, Howard M. (Howard Michael)

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Lang, Hans-Joachim

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Reynolds, David

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McGinnis, John O., 1957-....

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Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-

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Professor of English at Stanford, 1965-72 and Herman Melville scholar. Franklin was dismissed by the Stanford Board of Trustees in 1972. From the description of H. Bruce Franklin collection, 1969-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 503422572 Professor of English at Stanford, 1965-1972 and Herman Melville scholar. From the description of Future perfect, ca. 1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122447867 Biographical/Historica...

Covici, Pascal, Jr.

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Knopf, A. A.

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Bywaters, Jerry

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Jerry Bywaters (1906-1989) was a painter and art historian from Dallas, Tex. From the description of Oral history interview with Jerry Bywaters, 1965 June 9 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458411642 Painter, art historian; Dallas, Texas. Born 1906. Died 1989. From the description of Jerry Bywaters interview, 1965 June 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220192385 Painter, art historian, and museum director; Dallas, Tex. Born 1906. Died 19...

Hubbell, Jay B. (Jay Broadus), 1885-1979

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Professor of American literature, Duke University, Durham, N.C. From the description of Papers, c. 1900-1977. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122616751 From the description of Jay B. Hubbell papers, 1905-1986. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 81571865 From the description of Papers, 1905-1977. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19643110 From the description of Papers, 1905-1986. (Duke University Library). WorldCat re...

Osgood, E. A.

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Ginger, Ann F.

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Little Thinkers

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Poirier, Richard.

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Correspondence and writings of American professor, editor, and scholar of literature and popular culture, Richard Poirier. From the description of Richard Poirier Collection, 1945-2007 [Bulk Dates: 1986-2007]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 733728372 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Richard Poirier, an American literary and cultural critic, professor of literature, and founder of Raritan: A Quarterly Review, was born September 9, 1925 in Gloucester Massachusetts. Poirier serve...

Griswold, A. Whitney

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Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993.

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Recorded in Stegner's home. From the description of Interview by John Milton : cassette audio tape, June 20, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398049 Robert Pepper taught in the English Department at San Jose State University. From the description of Typed letter signed to Robert D. Pepper, 1982 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83291245 Mormon school teacher and author. From the description of Letter, 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat re...

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...

Chapman, John

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Blair, Walter, 1900-....

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Educator and literary scholar. From the description of Papers, 1970-1989. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40329113 Professor of English, University of Chicago, Ill.; scholar in American humor studies. From the description of Papers, 1933-1986. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19242468 ...

Randel, Bill

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Mitford, Jessica

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Monk, Sam

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Arts Club

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Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Richard Hofstadter : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158429 From the description of Reminiscences of Richard Hofstadter : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86100453 Richard Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York, on August 6, 1916. He attended Buffalo public schools and received his B.A. from the Universi...

Levin, Dave

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Lynn, Kenneth

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Merk, Frederick, 1887-1977

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Oliver Edwin Baker (1883-1949) was an agricultural geographer and population expert and an analyst for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was an authority on agricultural land utilization and advocate of “rurban” living, a combination of urban employment, suburban living, and part-time farming. Baker was born in 1883 in Tifflin, Ohio, to Edwin Baker, a merchant, and his wife Martha Ranney Thomas. As a boy Baker was taught by his mother, a former school teacher, and t...

Aaron, Dan

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Branch, Edgar M.

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Fredrick, Harold

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Berkovitch, Sacvan

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Hitch, Charles

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Stephenson, R. C.

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May, Henry

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Epithet: Chief Cashier Bank of England British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x000357 Biographical Sketch Henry May taught in Berkeley's Dept. of Dramatic Art from 1963 to 1991. He received his BFA in landscape architecture from the University of Illinois in 1943, and after service in the Navy worked in various theater and television positions on the east c...

Douglas, Ann

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Kosmos Club

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Tinkle, J. L.

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Stoehr, Taylor, 1931-....

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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964

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J. Frank Dobie was a noted Texas author and English professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also editor of the Texas Folklore Society's publications during the 1930's and 1940's. From the description of Letter : to W.A. Philpott, 1938 April 12. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 22699684 Historian, author, folklorist. Born in 1888 on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, Dobie was awarded his B.A. by Southwestern University (1910), M.A. by Co...

Girgus, Sam

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UC Berkeley

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Baker, Joseph Ellis, 1905-1985

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Professor of English at the University of Iowa. From the description of Oral history interview with Joseph Baker, 1976 June 25. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233107241 Joseph E. Baker was a professor of Victorian literature in the English Department at the University of Iowa, 1935-1973. Baker, his wife Mary, and his family were members of the First Presbyterian Church, 26 East Market Street, in Iowa City. In 1966 a plan to demolish the church, built in ...

Doughty, Howard, Jr.

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Crews, Frederick

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Anderson, Quentin, 1912-2003

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American professor and literary critic, oldest son of Maxwell Anderson. Taught at Columbia University for many years and directed the graduate studies program in American Literature there. His books include The imperial self, a copy of which he inscribed to "Lenya, who introduced me to Rilke." From the description of An oral history interview with Quentin Anderson / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto, New York City(?), 1986 February 11 : recording and t...

Miller, Stuart, 1937-

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Tanner, Paul Anthony

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Wecter, Dixon, 1906-1950

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Dixon Wecter (Yale Ph.D., 1936), professor of American literature, was the author of several works on aspects of American society, including Saga of American Society (1937), When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1944), which was a Life-in-America prize book, and Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941 (1949). He was literary editor of the Mark twain estate from 1948 until his death in 1950. From the description of When Johnny comes marching home, [1944]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7021...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author. From the description of Nathaniel Hawthorne manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1853-1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 301761440 American author, writer of romances, stories, and juvenile works. Born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.; died May, 1864, in Plymouth, N.H. Sometime resident of Concord, Mass. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Hawthorne's association with the Boston publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields began ...

James, Henry

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x00012f Epithet: Baron James of Hereford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000331 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000361 Epithet: Capta...

De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955

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American educator, novelist, and Literary Editor of the Mark Twain Estate. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Lincoln and Cambridge, Mass. ; White Plains, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, [n.d.] and 1935-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863883 Betty White was one of De Voto's students at Northwestern in the 1920's. She was literary, and the best friend of Avis MacVicar, whom De Voto shortly married. As a senior at Northwestern, Betty Whi...

Gohdes, Clarence, 1901-1997

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Professor of English and managing editor of American Literature, Duke University, Durham, N.C. From the description of Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes Papers, 1905-1990s and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19562413 From the description of Papers, 1935-1992. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40422217 Professor of English and managing editor of American Literature, Duke University, Durham, N.C. Gohdes died in 1997. From the...

Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999

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Babbitt, Irving

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MacLean, Kenneth D.

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Feinstein, Herbert C. V.

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Greenwatt, Sister Mary Amelia

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Ganz, Armin

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Renoir, Alain

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Rackliffe, Jack

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Ruland, Richards

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Miller, Perry

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Harris, Mark

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Epithet: US novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x00002d ...

Berkeley Fellows

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Berman, Ronald.

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Hirst, Robert H.

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Doughty, Howard

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Lyndenberg, John

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Drinnon, Richard.

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Porter, Carolyn

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Faulk, John Henry

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Folklorist, humorist, lecturer, and civil rights activist John Henry Faulk (1913-1990) was born to parents Henry and Martha (Miner) in Austin, Texas. A protégé of J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, and Roy Bedichek, Faulk graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he later taught English. For his master's thesis, he analyzed ten African American sermons, and his research greatly impacted his thinking on civil liberties. Aided by his friend and fellow folklorist Alan ...

Fluck, Winfred

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Tollefson, Stephen K.

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Watt, Ian

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Meikeljohn, Alexander

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Levin, Harry, 1910-1965

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Aaron, Daniel

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Schmitz, Neil

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Charles Brockton Brown

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Cummings, Sherwood, 1916-2005

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Fruge, August

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Emerson, Everett Harvey

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...

Hankin, C. A.

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Levin, David

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Allen, James

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DeForest, John W.

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Tate, Allen

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Corona, Mario

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Smith, Henry Nash

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Biography Henry Nash Smith was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1906. He took his bachelor's degree in English at age 19 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he taught from 1927 to 1941, taking time out for his M.A. in English (1929) and his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization (1940), both at Harvard. He subsequently taught in the English departments of the University of Texas (until 1947) and the University of Minnesota (un...

Bedicheck, Roy

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Gillman, Susan Kay

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O'Neil, John, 1810-1876

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Bracher, Fred

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Martinez-Lopez, Ramon

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Voloshin, Beverly

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Marx, Leo, 1919-....

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Howells, William Dean

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0000a8 ...

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998

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Epithet: Professor of English British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0002f8 American writer, literary critic and memoirist; author of "On native grounds," and "A walk in the city." From the description of Alfred Kazin letter [manuscript], 1943 March 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999332 Writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Alfred Kazin: oral h...

Cardwell, Guy, 1905-2005

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Kahn, Shalom J.

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