Ellen Glasgow - Doesn't all experience crumble in the end...

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Biography

Author Profession: Novelist

Nationality: American

Born: April 22, 1873

Died: November 21, 1945

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Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, John Updike, Leo Rosten, Elie Wiesel, H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Bach, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Topics

Crumble, End, Experience, In The End, Literary, Material, Mere

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