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My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.

Philip Schultz

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Philip Schultz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 1
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Rochester
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