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James Wright

Born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on December 13, 1927, James Arlington Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and was elected a fellow of The Academy of American Poets

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2013 From the Archive: Postcard to Betty Kray
2009 Report on the 1921 Fight Between Jack Dempsey and George Carpentier [excerpt]
2009 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Come, give us your hand, duke]
2009 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [One morning about daybreak]
2009 What Do You Like?
2009 Transcript: James Wright on the Poetic Prose of H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, E. M. Forster, and Leo Tolstoy

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