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Marilyn French Author & Editor

Marilyn French was born in 1929 in New York into a family of Polish descent. She received her doctorate from Harvard University in 1972. A bestselling writer of both fiction and non-fiction, she was also a literary critic. She taught at Hofstra, Harvard and the College of the Holy Cross and received a Harvard Centennial Medal. She died in May 2009.