e-martin
e-martin
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December 28, 2011
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High School - 11th Grade
English / Literature / Writing
Swarthmore College - Swarthmore, PA, US (1998 - 2002)
Literature, writing and film.
Biography
Writer and educator. Instructed in classrooms from 6th to 11th grade. Favorite writers in a list with no particular order: Walt Whitman, Joseph Campbell, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Wallace Stevens, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, J.M. Coetzee.
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