biography
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Matthiessen, F(rancis) O(tto)
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pronunciation:
[mathesen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1902–50)
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| biography:
| Literary critic and educator, born in Pasadena, California, USA. He taught at Harvard (1929–50) until he committed suicide. Among his many works on American writers, his American Renaissance (1941) was a landmark in American cultural history and helped establish American literature as an academic subject. |
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