billdelaney
billdelaney
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September 4, 2011
University of California-Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA, US (1960 - 1963)
Shakespeare, Hemingway, Poe, English literature, American literature, French literature, especially short stories
Biography
Freelance writer, editor, independent scholar. I have written several hundred essays, articles, and reviews for Magill's/Salem Press which are accessible online via eNotes. I have also published eighteen peer-reviewed literary articles in The Explicator.
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Answered a Question in After Twenty Years
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Answered a Question in A Streetcar Named Desire
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Answered a Question in After Twenty Years
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Answered a Question in Dusk
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Answered a Question in Odyssey
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Answered a Question in Dusk
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Answered a Question in Dusk
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Asked a Question in Dusk
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Answered a Question in An Astrologer's Day
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Answered a Question in Dusk
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Answered a Question in Dusk
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Answered a Question in The Tempest
In Act 1, Scene 2 of The Tempest, Prospero tells his daughter Miranda about how he...
Answered a Question in Soldier's Home
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Answered a Question in Hamlet
When Hamlet first aappears in Act 1, Scene 2, King Claudius shows that he already...
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