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Also Known As Stanley Eugene Fish
Born April 19, 1938 (age 86) • Providence • Rhode Island
Notable Works “How Milton Works” • “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One” • “Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change” • “Surprised by Sin: The Reader in ”Paradise Lost”” • “The Trouble with Principle” • “Too There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing” • “Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn’t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom”
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