biography
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| (1904–87)
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| biography:
| Mythologist and educator, born in New York City, New York, USA. A professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College (1934–72), he entranced students with his analysis of comparative mythology, writing The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) and Masks of God (4 vols, 1959–68). Although his scholarship has been criticized, he attained the status of a virtual guru through a series of television interviews by Bill Moyers (1985–6). |
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