Daniel Aaron

Daniel Aaron (August 4, 1912 – April 30, 2016) was an American writer and academic. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He helped found the Library of America in 1979.Cromie, William J., Ken Gewertz, Corydon Ireland, and Alvin Powell. "Honorary degrees awarded at Commencement’s Morning Exercises,"  Harvard Gazette. June 7, 2007. He served as president until 1985. He was later a board member and remained an emeritus board member. His latest work is an autobiography, The Americanist (2007). He taught at Smith College from 1971 through 1980.

Aaron died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 30, 2016 from complications of pneumonia, aged 103.

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