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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

Leon Edel

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Leon Edel
Age: 89 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 9
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
Biographer
Literary Critic
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Joseph Leon Edel
Eye
Pilgrim
Become
Traveler
Must
Literary
Obsession
Necessity
Obsessed
Peripatetic
Eyes
Biographer
Four
Biographers

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