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William Rose Benét

American writer.

Born February 2nd, 1886 in Brooklyn.

Died May 4th, 1950 at 64 years old in New York City.

Occupations
author, poet, writer

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