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R. W. B. Lewis

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Gender Female
Death21 years ago
Born Chicago
Illinois
United States
DiedBethany
Connecticut
United States
Children David Gress
Job Professor
Author
Literary critic
Literary Scholar
Awards Bancroft Prize
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Date of birth November 1,1917
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Date of died June 13,2002
Education The University of Chicago
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Date of Upd.
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The American Adam
Edith Wharton: A Biography
The City of Florence
The Jameses: A Family Narrative
Dante
Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition
American Literature
American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits
The poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study
Literary Reflections: A Shoring of Images, 1960-1993
A Century of Arts and Letters
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Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton.

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