Albert Goldbarth

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Albert Goldbarth: Facts & Related Content

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Born

January 31, 1948 (age 77) • Chicago • Illinois

Notable Works

“Adventures in Ancient Egypt” • “Arts & Sciences” • “Beyond” • “Comings Back” • “Coprolites” • “Different Fleshes” • “Everyday People” • “Great Topics of the World” • “Ink, Blood, Semen” • “Many Circles” • “Pieces of Payne” • “Saving Lives” • “The Gods” • “The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale” • “Who Gathered and Whispered Behind Me”

John Updike

John Updike

American author

Reynolds Price

American writer

John Gardner

American author

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

American writer

Tillie Olsen

American author

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American writer

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

American author

N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

American author

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

American author, photographer, and film director

Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

American critic

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

American author

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

American author

Ameen Rihani

Arab American author and political figure

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

Stein, Gertrude

Gertrude Stein

American writer

Hearn, Lafcadio

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

American writer

Willa Cather

Willa Cather

American author

Quiz

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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