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Anatole Broyard

This author, who eventually became a literary critic for The New York Times, reflects back on his life as a young man just returning from military service in World War II.

Sheri Donatti

This abstract artist lived in an apartment building in the Village owned a second apartment in the same building which she rented to the author.

W. H. Auden

This poet was a neighbor of the author's when he lived in Greenwich Village.

Erich Fromm

This famous psychoanalyst was a transplant from Germany during World War II and was one of the author''s professors at the New School.

Dick Gilman

One evening this individual visited the narrator and his girlfriend and made the case that he was a better match for her.

Dylan Thomas

This poet and his wife were among the guests at a house party where she began a fight, and he...

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