Edward Said

Professor of literature and a public intellectual.

Born November 1st, 1935 in Jerusalem. [ref]

Died November 25th, 2003 at 68 years old in New York City (leukemia). [ref]

Occupations
journalist, literary critic, musicologist, philosopher, political scientist, writer
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks