Facts: - employer: harvard -lrb- 1931 -- 1942 -rrb- university yale university new york university haverford college - known for: elizabethan literary puzzles - death date: 16 november 1992 - spouse: mary may peabody - education: harvard university , b.a. , m.a. and ph.d. . - birth date: 16 august 1897 - name: john leslie hotson - death place: north branford , connecticut - birth place: delhi , ontario Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john leslie hotson .
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john leslie hotson , also known as j. leslie hotson or leslie hotson -lrb- 16 august 1897 -- 16 november 1992 -rrb- was a scholar of elizabethan literary puzzles .