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name: Michael Gorra
about: Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany; Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography; and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War.