Walter Jackson Bate
American literary critic and biographer (1918–1999) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Walter Jackson Bate (May 23, 1918 – July 26, 1999) was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964).[1] Samuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.[2]
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Born | May 23, 1918 Mankato, Minnesota, U.S. |
Died | July 26, 1999(1999-07-26) (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Occupation | Professor |
Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD) |
Genre | Literary criticism, biography |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize National Book Award |
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