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John Gardner
American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor.
Born July 21st, 1933 in Batavia. [ref]
Died September 14th, 1982 at 49 years old in Susquehanna River (traffic collision). [ref]
Occupations
biographer, children's writer, essayist, journalist, literary critic, non-fiction writer, novelist, translator, writer
Wikipedia
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.