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Leon Edel

Age: 80
writer

Edel's writing on Henry James earned him a 1963 Pulitzer Prize and a 1963 National Book Award. His five-volume biography, known as The Henry James Biography, is considered a seminal example of the “great American literary biography.”

Born: 1907
Died: Sept. 5, 1997

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