Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
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| Birth: | 26th September, 1892 |
| Death: | 1st November, 1970 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Professor, Sociologist |
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Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture and Middletown in Transition, which are classics of American sociology.
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