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Suzette Haden Elgin

American linguist and writer (1936-2015).

Born November 18th, 1936 in Missouri.

Died January 27th, 2015 at 78 years old in Arkansas. [ref]

Occupations
contemporary folk singer, guitar teacher, interpreter, language inventor, linguist, novelist, pianist, poet, psycholinguist, science fiction writer, secretary, translator, violinist, writer, writer of feminist science fiction

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. Langston Hughes