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Leonard Michaels
Leonard Michaels

Leonard Michaels was an American writer, born on January 2, 1933, and passed away on May 10, 2003. His works are known for their profound psychological insights and delicate portrayals of everyday life. more

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“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”