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Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an educator, scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies.[1]

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  1. 95 relations: Albert Einstein, Alice James, Alpheus Henry Snow, American Federation of Labor, American literature, American Renaissance (literature), American studies, Arthur Miller, Boston, C. Riley Snorton, Closeted, Communist Party USA, Corliss Lamont, Drew Gilpin Faust, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliot House, Frederick William Matthiessen, Gayle Rubin, Hackley School, Harry Levin, Harvard College, Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus, Harvard University, Henry A. Wallace, Henry D. Abelove, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Henry James Sr., Herbert Philbrick, Herman Melville, Homoeroticism, Hotel Manger, House Un-American Activities Committee, Illinois, John Crowe Ransom, John William Ward (professor), Joseph McCarthy, Kirtley F. Mather, Kittery, Maine, Langston Hughes, LaSalle, Illinois, Leaves of Grass, Left-wing politics, Life (magazine), Lillian Hellman, Lionel Trilling, List of suicides of LGBT people, Mark Merlis, May Sarton, McCarthyism, ... Expand index (45 more) »

  2. 1950 suicides
  3. American studies scholars
  4. Hackley School alumni
  5. LGBT Christians
  6. LGBT studies academics
  7. Suicides by jumping in the United States
  8. Suicides in Massachusetts

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

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Alice James

Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892) was an American diarist, sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James.

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Alpheus Henry Snow

Alpheus Henry Snow (November 8, 1859 – August 19, 1920) was an American lawyer and scholarly investigator in the field of international law.

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American Federation of Labor

The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO.

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American literature

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it.

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American Renaissance (literature)

The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War.

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American studies

American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, history, society, and culture.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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C. Riley Snorton

C.

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Closeted

Closeted and in the closet are metaphors for LGBT people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Corliss Lamont

Corliss Lamont (March 28, 1902 – April 26, 1995) was an American socialist and humanist philosopher and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. F. O. Matthiessen and Corliss Lamont are historians from New York (state).

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Drew Gilpin Faust

Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. F. O. Matthiessen and Drew Gilpin Faust are historians from New York (state).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. F. O. Matthiessen and Edgar Allan Poe are American literary critics and writers from Boston.

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Eliot House

Eliot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University.

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Frederick William Matthiessen

Frederick William Matthiessen (March 5, 1835 – February 11, 1918) was a philanthropist, industrialist, and mayor of LaSalle, Illinois.

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Gayle Rubin

Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist, theorist and activist, best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies.

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Hackley School

Hackley School is a private college preparatory school located in Tarrytown, New York, and is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League.

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Harry Levin

Harry Tuchman Levin (July 18, 1912 – May 29, 1994) was an American literary critic and scholar of both modernism and comparative literature. F. O. Matthiessen and Harry Levin are American literary critics, American literary historians and historians from Massachusetts.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus

The Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus (HGSC) is an American non-profit organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Harvard University and Radcliffe College alumni/ae, faculty, staff and students.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry A. Wallace

Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Henry D. Abelove

Henry D. Abelove is an American historian and literary critic, most of whose writings focus on the history of sex during the modern era. F. O. Matthiessen and Henry D. Abelove are gay academics.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author.

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Henry James Sr.

Henry James Sr. (June 3, 1811December 18, 1882) was an American theologian and the father of the philosopher William James, the novelist Henry James, and the diarist Alice James. F. O. Matthiessen and Henry James Sr. are American Christian socialists.

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Herbert Philbrick

Herbert Arthur Philbrick (May 11, 1915 – August 16, 1993) was a Boston-area advertising executive who was encouraged by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist Party USA between 1940 and 1949. F. O. Matthiessen and Herbert Philbrick are writers from Boston.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Homoeroticism

Homoeroticism is sexual attraction between members of the same sex, including both male–male and female–female attraction.

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Hotel Manger

The Hotel Manger (pronounced Mang-er as in hangar), renamed the Hotel Madison in 1959, was a hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, that operated from 1930 to 1976.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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John Crowe Ransom

John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. F. O. Matthiessen and John Crowe Ransom are American Rhodes Scholars and American literary critics.

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John William Ward (professor)

John William Ward (1922–1985), was the 14th President of Amherst College, a veteran of World War II, Professor of English and History at Princeton University, and Chairman of the Ward Commission. F. O. Matthiessen and John William Ward (professor) are American literary historians, American studies scholars and writers from Boston.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.

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Kirtley F. Mather

Kirtley Fletcher Mather (February 13, 1888May 5, 1978) was an American geologist and faculty member at Harvard University.

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Kittery, Maine

Kittery is a town in York County, Maine, United States, and the oldest incorporated town in Maine.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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LaSalle, Illinois

LaSalle or La Salle is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, located at the intersection of Interstates 39 and 80.

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Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist views and political activism.

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Lionel Trilling

Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. F. O. Matthiessen and Lionel Trilling are American literary critics.

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List of suicides of LGBT people

This is a list of LGBT people whose suicides were deemed sufficiently notable to be reported by the media.

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Mark Merlis

Mark Merlis (March 9, 1950 – August 15, 2017. The Washington Post, August 23, 2017.) was an American writer and health policy analyst. F. O. Matthiessen and Mark Merlis are American gay writers and LGBT people from Massachusetts.

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May Sarton

May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), a Belgian-American novelist, poet, and memoirist. F. O. Matthiessen and May Sarton are LGBT people from Massachusetts.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.

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Mel Y. Chen

Mel Y. Chen is an academic whose scholarship intersects many fields, including queer theory, gender studies, animal studies, critical race theory, Asian American studies, disability studies, science studies, and critical linguistics.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.

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Monthly Review

The Monthly Review is an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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New International (magazine)

The New International is a magazine of Marxist theory published first by the Socialist Workers Party of the United States (SWP) from 1934 to 1940, then by the Workers Party from 1940 to 1958, and then revived by the SWP since 1983.

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Norman Mailer

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Notebooks of Henry James

The Notebooks of Henry James are private notes made by the American-British novelist and critic.

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Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

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Paul Sweezy

Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 – February 27, 2004) was a Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine Monthly Review.

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Phelps Putnam

Howard Phelps Putnam (1894 – 1948) was an American poet who published two books, Trinc and The Five Seasons. F. O. Matthiessen and Phelps Putnam are members of Skull and Bones.

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Polytechnic School (California)

Polytechnic School, often referred to simply as Poly, is a college preparatory private day school located in Pasadena, California with approximately 850 students enrolled in grades Kindergarten through 12.

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Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955)

The Progressive Party was a left-wing political party in the United States that served as a vehicle for the campaign of Henry A. Wallace, a former vice president, to become President of the United States in 1948.

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Queer studies

Queer studies, sexual diversity studies, or LGBT studies is the study of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender dysphoric, asexual, queer, questioning, and intersex people and cultures.

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Ralph Barton Perry

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. F. O. Matthiessen and Ralph Waldo Emerson are writers from Boston.

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Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Robert Reid-Pharr

Robert Reid-Pharr is an American literary and cultural critic and professor. F. O. Matthiessen and Robert Reid-Pharr are American literary critics.

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Russell Cheney

Russell Cheney (October 16, 1881 – July 12, 1945) was an American Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and New England regionalist painter. F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney are members of Skull and Bones.

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Salzburg Global Seminar

Salzburg Global Seminar is a non-profit organization that convenes programs on health care, education, culture, finance, technology, public policy, media, human rights, corporate governance, philanthropy, and the environment.

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Sarah Orne Jewett

Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine.

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School of Letters

The School of Letters was a summer institute and degree-granting (M.A. and Ph.D. minor) program at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. F. O. Matthiessen and Skull and Bones are members of Skull and Bones.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Springfield Cemetery (Springfield, Massachusetts)

Springfield Cemetery is located in the Connecticut River Valley city of Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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St. Martin's Press

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. F. O. Matthiessen and T. S. Eliot are American literary critics.

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Tarrytown, New York

Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson is the student newspaper of Harvard University and was founded in 1873.

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The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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University of Wisconsin Press

The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.

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Walden

Walden (first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau.

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Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

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Yale Daily News

The Yale Daily News is an independent student newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut, since January 28, 1878.

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Yale Literary Magazine

The Yale Literary Magazine, founded in 1836, is the oldest student literary magazine in the United States and publishes poetry, fiction, and visual art by Yale undergraduates twice per academic year.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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See also

1950 suicides

American studies scholars

Hackley School alumni

LGBT Christians

LGBT studies academics

Suicides by jumping in the United States

Suicides in Massachusetts

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._O._Matthiessen

Also known as American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, F O Matthiessen, F. Matthiessen, F. O. Mathiessen, F. O. Mattheissen, F. O. Matthiesen, F. O. Matthiessen Professor of Gender and Sexuality, F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality, F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality, F.O. Mathiessen, F.O. Matthiesen, F.O. Matthiessen, F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Sex and Gender, FO Matthiessen, Frances Otto Matthiesson, Francis Matthiessen, Francis O. Mathiessen, Francis O. Matthiessen, Francis Otto Matthieson, Francis Otto Matthiessen.

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