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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
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
American writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
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
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
American author
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
American novelist
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
American author and activist