“The notion that you could make a young person do something so inhumane to another soldier—or even worse, a civilian—convinced me that we were in the wrong.”
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Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer Kristofferson was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style. Some of his most famous songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970), "For the Good Times" (1968), "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (1969), and "Help Me Make It Through th…
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entertainment · American singer and actor (1936–2024) · film actor · singer-songwriter · singer · composer · guitarist · recording artist · voice actor · military personnel · actor · country musician · also Kris Kristofferson, Kristoffer Kristofferson, Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson, Kristoffer Kristian "Kris" Kristofferson, Kristofferson
Born 22 June 1936 · Died 28 September 2024 · Q208681
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2026· 3 entries
“I was thinking back to when I first met him, and if I ever thought that I”
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2024· 10 entries
The Guardian: Kris Kristofferson’s brave anti-war song | Brief letters
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The Guardian: Kris Kristofferson: 10 of his greatest songs
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The Guardian: Kris Kristofferson: the soldier turned star made a tough life into tender poetry
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The Guardian: Kris Kristofferson obituary
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The Guardian: Whisky growl, granite jaw and unflappable charisma: Kris Kristofferson was perfect as a lover or a fighter
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The Guardian: Kris Kristofferson: the gritty voice of experience – archive, May 1972
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The Guardian: Kris Kristofferson – a life in pictures
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The Guardian: Kris Kristofferson, US country singer and actor, dies aged 88
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Died 2024-09-28.
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At the age of 88, three years after announcing his retirement
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2023· 1 entry
Where he sang a cover of "Lovin' You Was Easier" with Rosanne Cash in honor of Willie Nelson's 90th birthday; the concert was later released as Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 that December
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2022· 4 entries
Released album “Live at Gilley’s”.
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Published video ““The Pilgrim” is available to stream now. Listen when you pre-order Kris’ new album #LiveAtGilleys!”.
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Published video “Kris’ newest album #LiveAtGilleys is available for pre-order today!”.
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Released album “The Silver Tongued Devil and I / Border Lord / Jesus Was a Capricorn / Spooky Lady's Sideshow”.
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “Whisper of the Raindrops (Live New York ’79)”.
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Released album “1970: Boboquivari, KCET-TV Studio, Los Angeles, CA”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Gold”.
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2019· 2 entries
In Hyde Park, London as part of the British Summer Time concert series
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Published video “A Case Of You (Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration/Audio)”.
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “Live Highwaymen”.
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Released album “Kris Kristofferson & Friends: Live at the Record Plant 1973”.
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2017· 4 entries
Published video “KKristoffersonVEVO Live Stream”.
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The Guardian: Is Kris Kristofferson's wedding-planning dog drama already the worst movie of 2018?
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Released album “The Bottom Line Archive: Lou Reed & Kris Kristofferson in Their Own Words With Vin Scelsa”.
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Published video “Turpentine (From Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates The Story) (Audio)”.
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2016· 6 entries
Released album “The Cedar Creek Sessions”.
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Released album “Live at RCA Studios 1972”.
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Released album “Extras”.
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Released album “Demos”.
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Released album “Live at the Big Sur Folk Festival”.
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Released album “The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection”.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”.
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2014· 4 entries
Published video “Kris Kristofferson - Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) (Official Video)”.
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Released album “An Evening With Kris Kristofferson: The Pilgrim; Ch 77 Union Chapel, London”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2014).
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Kristofferson engaged in a series of recording sessions at Cedar Creek Recording in Austin, Texas, which led to his final studio album, The Cedar Creek Sessions
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2013· 5 entries
Published video “Kris Kristofferson, Phil Alvin, Sheryl Crow, Dave Alvin, Taj Mahal - What Kind Of Man Am I (Audio)”.
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Published video “Kris Kristofferson - How Many Days (Audio)”.
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Released ep “Take All the Time That You're Given: Big Light Studio, Nashville, TN, USA”.
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Released album “Feeling Mortal”.
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Released album “For the Good Times: The Best of Kris Kristofferson”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Kris Kristofferson”.
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968–72”.
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Kristofferson voiced the character Chief Hanlon of the NCR Rangers in the video game Fallout: New Vegas
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2009· 8 entries
Published video “Kris Kristofferson - They Killed Him”.
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Released ep “Sadness Has Nothing to Do With Sanity: New Monkey Studio, Van Nuys, CA, USA”.
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Published video “Kris Kristofferson - Love Is The Way”.
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Released album “Closer to the Bone”.
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Released album “Border Lord / Jesus Was A Capricorn”.
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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“I like the intimacy of the new album. It has a general mood of reflecting on where we all are at this time of life.”
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Released album “Who’s to Bless and Who’s to Blame / To the Bone”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “16 Biggest Hits”.
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Kristofferson won CMT's Johnny Cash Visionary Award
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2006· 7 entries
Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (2006).
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Released album “Live From Austin, TX”.
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Released album “This Old Road”.
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Released album “Live From Austin TX: Outlaw Country”.
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Released album “Collections”.
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Kristofferson starred with Geneviève Bujold in the film Disappearances about whiskey running from Quebec to the U
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Received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and released his first album full of new material in 11 years; This Old Road
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2005· 1 entry
The film Dreamer was released, in which Kristofferson played the role of "Pop", a retired thoroughbred horse trainer
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2004· 3 entries
Began experiencing memory problems which lasted for the next 11 years
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Released album “The Essential Kris Kristofferson”.
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And received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014
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2003· 5 entries
Awarded "Spirit of Americana" Free Speech Award (2003).
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Awarded Texas Country Music Hall of Fame (2003).
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Released album “The Greatest Hits”.
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Broken Freedom Song was released, a live album recorded in San Francisco
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Released album “Broken Freedom Song: Live in San Francisco”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “All‐Time Greatest Hits”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Honky Tonk Heroes”.
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1999· 4 entries
Released album “The Austin Sessions”.
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Released album “The Best of Kris Kristofferson”.
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Released album “Super Hits”.
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The Austin Sessions was released, an album on which Kristofferson reworked some of his favorite songs with the help of artists such as Mark Knopfler, Steve Earle, and Jackson Browne
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1998· 2 entries
Starred in Dance with Me along with Vanessa Williams and Chayanne
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Released album “The Country Collection”.
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1997· 1 entry
Kristofferson co-starred in the film Fire Down Below with Steven Seagal
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “A Moment of Forever”.
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Dedicated a song to Mumia Abu-Jamal at a concert in Philadelphia, and was booed by the crowd
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “The Very Best of Kris Kristofferson”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Live at the Philharmonic”.
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Showed solidarity with her when she was booed by the crowd
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1991· 3 entries
Released album “Singer / Songwriter”.
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Released album “Back to Back”.
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Released album “Willie Waylon Kris & Cash”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “The Legendary Years”.
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Kristofferson's solo recording career slipped significantly in the early 1990s, though he continued to record successfully with the Highwaymen
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “My Songs”.
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Released album “The Man And His Songs”.
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Released album “The Hits of Kris Kristofferson”.
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Was the male lead in the film Millennium with Cheryl Ladd
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1988· 1 entry
And Ross Perot's presidential campaign in 1992
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1987· 2 entries
Played at a benefit concert for Leonard Peltier with Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson and Joni Mitchell
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Kristofferson starred in the seven-episode TV series Amerika with Robert Urich and Christine Lahti
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1986· 1 entry
Starred in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James with Johnny Cash and Flashpoint with Treat Williams in 1984, directed by William Tannen
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1985· 3 entries
By the neo-noir thriller Trouble In Mind co-starring Keith Carradine and Lori Singer
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As had the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame earlier, in 1977
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Kristofferson starred in Trouble in Mind and released Repossessed, a politically aware album that was a country success, particularly "They Killed Him" (also performed by Bob Dylan), a tribute to his heroes, including Ma
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “Music From Songwriter”.
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Released album “Four Star Country: The Very Best of Four of Today’s Biggest Stars”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “The Winning Hand”.
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Kristofferson joined Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Brenda Lee on The Winning Hand, a double album consisting of remastered and updated performances of recordings the four artists had made for the Monument label during
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1981· 2 entries
Co-starred with Jane Fonda in Rollover, directed by Alan J
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Released album “To the Bone”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Shake Hands With the Devil”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Easter Island”.
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Released album “Natural Act”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Songs of Kristofferson”.
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1976· 3 entries
Released album “A Star Is Born”.
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Released album “Surreal Thing”.
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Released album “午後の曳航 = the Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (original Soundtrack)”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “Who’s to Bless and Who’s to Blame”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Breakaway”.
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Released album “Spooky Lady’s Sideshow”.
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Full Moon”.
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1972· 3 entries
Released album “Jesus Was a Capricorn”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Country Song for Help Me Make It Through the Night (1972).
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Released album “Border Lord”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “The Silver Tongued Devil and I”.
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Kristofferson made his film debut in The Last Movie and devoted much of the later decade to making Hollywood films
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1970· 3 entries
Released album “Kristofferson”.
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“Help Me Make It Through the Night”
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Made his debut performance as a singer at the Los Angeles nightclub The Troubadour
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1969· 1 entry
Kristofferson divorced Beer and left Nashville to join the production of his first motion picture, Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie, in Peru
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1968· 1 entry
Kristofferson worked at Petroleum Helicopters International (PHI) in Lafayette, Louisiana
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1965· 1 entry
After his tour in West Germany ended, Kristofferson was re-assigned to teach English literature at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York
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1961· 3 entries
Kristofferson joined the United States Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant
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Married his longtime girlfriend, Frances "Fran" Mavia Beer
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Kristofferson married his longtime girlfriend Frances "Fran" Mavia Beer, but they divorced in 1969
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1960· 1 entry
Kristofferson graduated with a master's degree in English literature
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1958· 3 entries
Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1958).
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Kristofferson was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, studying at Merton College
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Earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in English Literature
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-06-22.
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