Ernest J. Gaines

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Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson
by Herman Beavers. 286 pgs.

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Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Innovations of Kin

Chapter 1: Relative Politics: the Literary Triumverate of Ralph Waldo Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, and James Alan Mcpherson

Chapter 2: The Possible in Things Unwritten: Kinship and Innovation in The Fictions of Ellison, Gaines, And Mcpherson

Part II: Trueblood Echoing

Chapter 3: Tilling the Soil to Find Ourselves: Conversion, Labor, And [re]membering in Gaines's of Love And Dust and in My Father's House

Chapter 4: If It's Going to Be Any Good, It's Your Story": Legibility, [un]speakability, And Historical Performance In Mcpherson's "A Solo Song: for Doc

Part III: The Lower Frequencies

Chapter 5: Voices from the Underground: Conspiracy, Intimacy, and Voice In Gaines's Fictions

Chapter 6: "The Life of the Law is Thus a Life Of Art": Antagonism and Persuasion In Mcpherson's Legal Fiction Trilogy

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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In the Singer's Temple: Prose Fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski
by Jack Hicks. 293 pgs.

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In the Singer's Temple: Prose Fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski

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Preface

One: Introduction: in the Singer's Temple

Two: Metafiction and Donald Barthelme

Three: Afro-American Fiction and Ernest Gaines

Four: Fiction from the Counterculture: Marge Piercy, Richard Brautigan, Ken Kesey

Five: The Romance of Terror and Jerzy Kosinski

Six: Postscript: Singer, Temple, Song

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index
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Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe ("Three Men" by Ernest J. Gaines begins on p. 205)
by Charles H. Rowell. 606 pgs.

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The 70 uncut stories in this collection comprise 36 writers from the United States and 34 from Europe and the Americas. It is an anthology which exemplifies the diversity of writers from the African diaspora.

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Foreword

Introduction

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX A

Acknowledgments

ABSOLUTION

MY SINGULAR IRENE

WILLIE BEA AND JAYBIRD

THE ORGANIZER'S WIFE

WORDS

MISS ASKEW ON ICE

I USED TO LIKE THE DALLAS COWBOYS

THE EVENING AND THE MORNING AND THE NIGHT

CIVILIZATION

THEY CALLED HER AURORA (THE LOVE OF DONNA SUMMER)

CHERRY BOMB

GRIFF

COLUMBA

THE VISIT

NIGHT THOUGHTS

AVENUES

TAPESTRY

ROSENA ON THE MOUNTAIN

UNDER THE ROSE THE ELDEST

SWEAT, SUGAR, AND BLOOD

GLOSSARY

ARK OF BONES

A LETTER

THE MIRACLE

RANDALL RANDALL

THIS MAN AND ME

THREE MEN

ACCIDENTS

BY LOVE POSSESSED

SHE WAKES

KANAIMA

PRESENCE

CIRCLE OF SHADE

ALĒTHIA

THE FIRST DAY

THE FISHERMAN'S HOUSE

TRANSITS

MY NEXT-TO-LAST HIT

THE ORIGIN OF WHALES

SONG OF ROLAND

THE BLUE ROOM

MARRIAGE BONES

SHOEMAKER ARNOLD

CITY FLESH AND COUNTRY MANNERS

SOME GET WASTED

SPECIMEN

THE MORE I LIKE FLIES

QUILTING ON THE REBOUND

BLACK PIECES

THE STORY OF A SCAR

I DO NOT TAKE MESSAGES FROM DEAD PEOPLE

A HAPPY STORY

RECITATIF

A PLAY

VOODOO

BEWITCHED

THE DEVIL'S MAW

JUBY'S MORNING

STOP FRAME

YAWETIR

ENOUGH RIDES

KEEP A SECRET

THE INHERITANCE OF MY FATHER: A STORY FOR LISTENING

THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL

THIS CITY OF MEN

You Think I Mad, Miss?

HER HEAD A VILLAGE

SONATINA FOR TWO DRUMS

KEMBÉ (CHRONICLE-GOSPEL FOR A CERTAIN DECEMBER 19TH)

NINETEEN FIFTY-FIVE

FEVER

About the Book and Editor

Notes on Contributors
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Communal Responsibility in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson before Dying, in The Mississippi Quarterly
by Jeffrey J. Folks. 13 pgs.

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"'His Feet on Your Neck'": The New Religion in the Works of Ernest J. Gaines, in African American Review
by Lee Papa. 7 pgs.

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Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African-American Fiction (Chap. 6 "'You Don't See What I Don't See': Communal Construction of Meaning in Ernest Gaines's Fiction")
by Philip Page. 260 pgs.

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An examination of how the works of five African American writers reveal the power for communal bonds.

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Acknowledgments

1: At the Crossroads

2: Affirmation and Doubt in John Edgar Wideman's Fiction

3: Imagining the Future in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters

4: The Composite Self in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage

5: "Listening Below The Surface" Beyond the Boundaries in Gloria Naylor's Fiction

6: Communal Construction of Meaning In Ernest Gaines's Fiction

7: Performing Cultural Work

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective (Chap. 10 "Aging and the African-American Community: The Case of Ernest J. Gaines")
by Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker. 256 pgs.

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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-medical equation of senescence with inevitable senility. Underlying all of this discussion is the firm conviction that cultural texts construct as well as encode the conventional perceptions of their society; that literature, the arts, and the media not only mirror society's mores but can also help to create and enforce them.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Aging Male in Literature

Chapter 1: The Dialectic of Aging in Shakespeare's King Lear and the Tempest

Chapter 2: Shakespeare Teaching Geriatrics: Lear and Prospero as Case Studies in Aged Heterogeneity

Chapter 3: Why? versus Why Not?: Potentialities of Aging in Shaw's Back to Methuselah

Chapter 4: Hemingway's Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis

Chapter 5: Bertrand Russell in His Nineties: Aging and the Problem of Biography

Part II: The Aging Female in Literature

Chapter 6: Work, Contentment, and Identity in Aging Women in Literature

Chapter 7: Old Maids and Old Mansions: the Barren Sisters of Hawthorne, Dickens, and Faulkner

Chapter 8: The Aging Artist: the Sad but Instructive Case of Virginia Woolf

Part III: Aging in the Community

Chapter 9: The Sacred Ghost: the Role of the Elder(Ly) in Native American Literature

Chapter 10: Aging and the African-American Community: the Case of Ernest J. Gaines

Chapter 11: Aging and the Continental Community: Good Counsel in the Writings of Two Mature European Princesses, Marguerite de Navarre and Madame Palatine

Chapter 12: Aging and Academe: Caricature or Character

Chapter 13: Aging and the Public Schools: Visits of Charity -- the Young Look at the Old

Part IV: Aging in the Fine and Popular Arts

Chapter 14: Aging and Contemporary Art

Chapter 15: The Return Home: Affirmations and Transformations of Identity in Horton Foote's the Trip to Bountiful

Chapter 16: Animated Gerontophobia: Ageism, Sexism, and the Disney Villainess

Chapter 17: 8½ and Me: the Thirty-Two-Year Difference

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Discourse and the Other: The Production of the Afro-American Text (Chap. 4 "History, the Black Nationalist Discourse, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman")
by W. Lawrence Hogue. 196 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter 1. Literary Production:: A Silence in Afro-American Critical Practice

Chapter 3. Sixties' Social Movements, The Literary Establishment, And The Production of the Afro-American Text

Chapter 4. History, The Black Nationalist Discourse, And the Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman

Chapter 6: History, The Blues Idiom Style, And Train Whistle Guitar

Chapter 7. the Song of Morrison's Sula: History, Mythical Thought, And The Production of the Afro-American Historical Past

Chapter 8. the Post-Sixties, The Ideological Apparatus, And The Afro-American Text

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English ("Ernest J. Gaines (January 15, 1933-)" begins on p. 167)
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.

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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Glance at the History of the Short Story in English

Chinua Achebe

Ama Ata Aidoo

Jessica Anderson

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Toni Cade Bambara

John Simmons Barth

Donald Barthelme

Ann Beattie

Morley Callaghan

Angela (Olive) Carter

Raymond Carver

Sandra Cisneros

Robert Coover

Anita Desai

(Karen)Louise Erdrich

Richard Ford

Janet Frame

Ernest J. Gaines

Mavis Gallant

Nadine Gordimer

Patricia Grace

Gish Jen

Charles Richard Johnson

Elizabeth Jolley

Jamaica Kincaid

Maxine Hong Kingston

Doris Lessing

Bernard Malamud

Bobbie Ann Mason

James Alan McPherson

Lorrie Moore

Bharati Mukherjee

Alice Munro

R. K. Narayan

Tim OýBrien

Michael Ondaatje

Cynthia Ozick

Grace Paley

Velma Pollard

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Jean Rhys

Salman Rushdie

Samuel Dickson Selvon

Olive Senior

Leslie Marmon Silko

Amy Tan

William Trevor

Selected Annotated Bibliography

Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition (1989) ("Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)" begins on p. 290)
by Bernard W. Bell. 426 pgs.

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Introduction

1: The Roots of the Early Afro-American Novel

2: The Early Afro-American Novel: Historical Romance, Social Realism and Beyond

3: The Pre-World War I Novels of the Old Guard: Romance, Realism, and Naturalism

4: The Harlem Renaissance and the Search for New Modes of Narrative

5: Richard Wright and the Triumph of Naturalism

6: Myth, Legend, and Ritual in the Novel of the Fifties

7: The Contemporary Afro-American Novel, 1: Neorealism

8: The Contemporary Afro-American Novel, 2: Modernism and Postmodernism

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Contemporary Black American Fiction Writers ("Ernest J. Gaines: B. 1933" begins on p. 30)
by Harold Bloom. 184 pgs.

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Contemporary Black American Fiction Writers

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User's Guide

The Life of the Author

Introduction

Toni Cade Bambara B. 1939

Samuel R. Delany B. 1942

Ernest J. Gaines B. 1933

Alex Haley 1921-1992

Gayl Jones B. 1949

Terry Mcmillan B. 1951

Clarence Major B. 1936

Toni Morrison B. 1931

Gloria Naylor B. 1950

Ishmael Reed B. 1938

Alice Walker B. 1944

John Edgar Wideman B. 1941
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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)" begins on p. 168)
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 530 pgs.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically arranged entries begins with a biographical sketch of the author, offers a judicious critical assessment of the author's major works, provides a representative sample of the critical responses the author's books have elicited, and concludes with a selected bibliography that lists the author's publications as well as useful secondary material. Included are entries for major figures, such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, but many noteworthy young writers also receive the attention they deserve. Forty-one of the 79 writers discussed are women, and roughly a dozen of the novelists have identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Intended for students and advanced scholars alike, the volume is sophisticated yet accessible to a wide audience.

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Preface

Introduction

Tina Mcelroy Ansa

Doris Jean Austin

James Baldwin

Toni Cade Bambara

Barry Beckham

Hal Bennett

David Henry Bradley, Jr

Gwendolyn Brooks

Cecil Morris Brown

Frank London Brown

Ed Bullins

Octavia E. Butler

Bebe Moore Campbell

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Alice Childress

Michelle Cliff

Cyrus Colter

Steven Corbin

Samuel Delany

William Demby

Melvin Dixon

Larry Duplechan

Ralph Waldo Ellison

Arthur R. Flowers

Leon Forrest

Albert French

Ernest J. Gaines

Marita Golden

Sam Greenlee

Bill Gunn

E. Lynn Harris

Chester B. Himes

Kristin Hunter

Blyden Jackson

Charles Johnson

Gayl Jones

June Jordan

William Melvin Kelley

Randall Kenan

John Oliver Killens

Jamaica Kincaid

Andrea Lee

Audrey Lee

Philip Lewis

Audre Lorde

Clarence Major

Paule Marshall

Sharon Bell Mathis

John A. Mccluskey, Jr

Reginald Mcknight

Terry Mcmillan

Louise Meriwether

Toni Morrison

Walter Mosley

Albert Murray

Walter Dean Myers

Gloria Naylor

Ann Petry

Carlene Hatcher Polite

Ishmael Reed

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Dori Sanders

Sapphire

Gil Scott-Heron

Ntozake Shange

Charlotte Watson Sherman

Ann Allen Shockley

April Sinclair

Ellease Southerland

Joyce Carol Thomas

Dawn Turner Trice

Alice Walker

Margaret Walker

Dorothy West

John Edgar Wideman

Sherley Anne Williams

Jacqueline Woodson

Sarah Elizabeth Wright

Frank Garvin Yerby

Selected

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (1987) ("Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)" begins on p. 196)
by Joseph M. Flora, Robert Bain. 630 pgs.

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..."The scholarship is meticulous and the essays are lucid and perceptive..." Library Journal

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Introduction

James Agee (1909-1955)

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A. R. Ammons (1926- )

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John Barth (1930- )

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Hamilton Basso (1904-1964)

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Doris Betts (1932- )

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John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)

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James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

Erskine Caldwell (1903- )

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Truman Capote (1924-1984)

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Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)

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James Dickey (1923- )

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Ralph Ellison (1914- )

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William Faulkner (1897-1962)

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John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)

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Shelby Foote (1916- )

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Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )

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Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

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Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

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Shirley Ann Grau (1929- )

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Paul Green (1894-1981)

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Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

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Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

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Andrew Lytle (1902- )

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

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H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

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Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

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Walker Percy (1916- )

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

William Sydney Porter [O. Henry] (1862-1910)

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Reynolds Price (1933- )

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John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

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Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

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Elizabeth Spencer (1921- )

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Jesse Stuart (1906-1984)

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William Styron (1925- )

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Allen Tate (1899-1979)

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Peter Taylor (1917- )

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Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

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Anne Tyler (1941- )

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Robert Penn Warren (1905- )

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Eudora Welty (1909- )

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Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (1911-1983)

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Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)

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Stark Young (1881-1963)

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