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"Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists."

Donal Henahan, American Critic

Artist, Artists, Prose, Writer

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"Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists."

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