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Heilbrun, Carolyn(Amanda Cross)

Born: 1926 AD
Died: 2003 AD, at 77 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Novelists

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926 - Born on the 13th of January in East Orange, New Jersey.

1947 - Heilbrun graduated from Wellesley College.

1951 - Attended graduate school in English literature at Columbia University, receiving her M.A.

1960 - She taught English at Columbia.

1964 - In the Last Analysis.

1970 -  Poetic Justice.

1973 -  Toward a Recognition of Androgyny.

1995 -  The Education of a Woman.

         - Heilbrun was the first woman to receive tenure in the English department.

2003 - Died on the 9th of October.





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