George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer
"Humane Literacy".
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
“Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.”
On Critics
Writers at Work (1977)
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6 February 1752
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John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
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Song lyrics, The Missing Years (1991)
Wen Jiabao (1942) former Premier of the People's Republic of China
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John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Hugging the Shore, foreword (1983)