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Slater Brown
William Slater Brown (1896–1997) was an American novelist, biographer and translator of French literature. Most notably, he was a friend of the poet E. E. Cummings and is best-known as the character "B." in Cumming's 1922 memoir/novel The Enormous Room. His books, published under the name Slater Br…
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William Slater Brown (1896–1997) was an American novelist, biographer and translator of French literature. Most notably, he was a friend of the poet E. E. Cummings and is best-known as the character "B." in Cumming's 1922 memoir/novel The Enormous Room.
His books, published under the name Slater Brown, include the novel The Burning Wheel (1943); Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys (1956), a biography for children; and The Heyday of Spiritualism (1970), a study of the 19th-century interest in parapsychology and the occult.
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