Wilfrid Sheed

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Also Known As	Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed
Born	December 27, 1930 • London • England
Died	January 19, 2011 (aged 80) • Great Barrington • Massachusetts
Notable Works	“Baseball and Lesser Sports” • “Clare Boothe Luce” • “Essays in Disguise” • “Frank and Maisie: A Memoir with Parents” • “In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery” • “Max Jamison” • “Muhammad Ali” • “Office Politics” • “People Will Always Be Kind” • “The Boys of Winter” • “The Good Word & Other Words” • “The Hack” • “The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving Cole and a Crew of About Fifty” • “Transatlantic Blues”

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