Question: Who has a wider scope of profession, Dan Masterson or  Lionel Trilling?

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Slavery in Libya: Slavery in Libya has a long history and a lasting impact on the Libyan culture.  It is closely connected with the wider context of slavery in north Africa.  Therefore, it is better understood when this wider scope is taken into account.

The Experience of Literature: The Experience of Literature: A Reader with Commentaries is an anthology of short stories and poems, divided into four parts, and edited in 1967 by Lionel Trilling of Columbia University.  Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-15654.

Eric Salzman: Salzman was born September 8, 1933 in New York City and attended Forest Hills High School (1946–1950).  After studying composition with Marris Mawner at the New York High School of Music and Art (1949–51), he continued his studies (majoring in music and minoring in literature) at Columbia University (BA 1954), where his teachers included Jack Beeson, Lionel Trilling, Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky.  He pursued postgraduate work at Princeton University (MFA 1956) with Milton Babbitt, Roger Sessions, Earl Kim, Edward T. Cone, Arthur Mendel, Oliver Strunk and Nino Pirrotta.  A Fulbright Fellowship (1956–58) enabled him to study at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi, and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Maderna and Luigi Nono.

Louis Arnaud Reid: Louis Arnaud Reid was a British philosopher who held the foundation Chair in Philosophy of Education at the London University Institute of Education.  He was a founding contributor to the "British Journal of Aesthetics", and is best known for his writings on epistemology and aesthetics.  He influenced figures as diverse as Susanne Langer, Lionel Trilling and Harold Osborne.  Jacques Barzun said that Reid's "A Study in Aesthetics" was the book that most influenced him in his life.

Edward Alexander (professor): Edward Alexander (born 1936) is an American essayist and professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington.  He has focused his research on literary figures such as John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, John Morley, John Ruskin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, and Robert B. Heilman; and has authored books about Jewish history, Zionism, and antisemitism.

Dan Masterson: Dan Masterson (born February 22, 1934) is an American poet born in Buffalo, New York, United States (US).  He became a poet after several jobs as an actor, narrator, disc jockey (DJ), lay missionary worker, advertising copywriter, and theatrical public relations director.

Sincerity and Authenticity: Sincerity and Authenticity is a 1972 book by Lionel Trilling, based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1970 as Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.

The Liberal Imagination (1950): "The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society" (1950) is a collection of sixteen essays by critic, novelist, and professor of English Lionel Trilling.  It was published by The Viking Press in 1950, which had published Trilling’s first and only novel, "The Middle of the Journey", three years earlier in 1947.  "The Liberal Imagination" was edited by Pascal Covici, who had worked with Trilling when he edited and introduced Viking’s "Portable Matthew Arnold" in 1949.

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud is a biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones.  The most famous and influential biography of Freud, "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" was originally published in three volumes (first volume 1953, second volume 1955, third volume 1957); a one-volume edition abridged by literary critics Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus followed in 1961.  When first published, "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" was acclaimed, and sales exceeded expectations.  Although his biography has retained its status as a classic, Jones has been criticized for presenting an overly favorable image of Freud.

Lionel Trilling: Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.  He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the twentieth century who traced the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature.  With his wife Diana Trilling (née Rubin), whom he married in 1929, he was a member of the New York Intellectuals and contributor to the "Partisan Review".

Supporting paragraphs: Dan Masterson Lionel Trilling
Answer: Lionel Mordecai Trilling