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Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular mystery novels with a woman protagonist, under the pen name of Amanda Cross. These have been translated into numerous languages and in total sold nearly one million copies worldwide. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. January 1926 – 9. October 2003
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“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Source: Death in a Tenured Position

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