“He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.”

— Michael Chabon , book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys (1995)

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Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963

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