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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade
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George Ade
Age: 78 †
Born: 1866
Born: February 7
Died: 1944
Died: May 16
Film Director
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Novelist
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Kentland
Indiana
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