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Walter Jackson Bate

American biographer (1918-1999) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 81

Walter Jackson Bate was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964). Samuel Johnson also won the 1978 U.S. National Book Award in Biography.

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1999Died26 July 19991978National Book AwardAwardPulitzer Prize for BiographyAward1977National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionAward1964Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAward1918Born23 May 1918

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