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Richard Ellmann
American writer and literary critic.
Born March 15th, 1918 in Highland Park. [ref]
Died May 13th, 1987 at 69 years old in Oxford (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). [ref]
Occupations
biographer, journalist, literary critic, literary scholar, writer
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For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. Bram Stoker