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Helen Vendler

American literary critic · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1933 to 2024 · aged 90

Helen Vendler was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities.

Helen Vendler is read about 31 times a day, in 11 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 25 August 2026

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2024Died23 April 20242004Jefferson LectureAward2000Henry Allen Moe PrizeAward1996Truman Capote Award for Literary CriticismAward1980National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismAward1971Guggenheim FellowshipAward1969James Russell Lowell PrizeAward1933Born30 April 1933

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