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Also Known As Gregory Luis Rabassa
Born March 9, 1922 • Yonkers • New York
Died June 13, 2016 (aged 94) • Branford • Connecticut
Notable Works “One Hundred Years of Solitude” • “The Green House”
José Agustín
Mexican author
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Babette Deutsch
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
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Cesare Pavese
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Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary critic
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
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Ferré, Rosario
Rosario Ferré
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Frank O’Connor
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Tsubouchi Shōyō
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Andrew Lang
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende
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