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I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I do regret reading so little else there: Austen, George Eliot and occasionally Woolf, likewise Wright, Ellison, Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.

Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson

American Critic

Born: Oct 17, 1947

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