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Leon Edel

Joseph Leon Edel (9 September 1907 – 5 September 1997) was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.

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    The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn’t discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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    Can’t get Indiana off my mind, that’s the place I long to see.
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    He was a young lady in so many ways. A Victorian lady. Somewhere inside him, there was an adolescent girl.
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