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Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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| Birth: | 13th January, 1926 |
| Death: | 9th October, 2003 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Professor, Writer |
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Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was born in East Orange, New Jersey. She was an American professor and writer. She was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of important academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular mystery novels with a woman protagonist, under the pen name of Amanda Cross. She attended graduate school in English literature at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D in 1959. She taught English at Columbia for more than three decades, from 1960 to 1992.
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