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Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Louis Kronenberger

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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
Critic
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Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
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