Joseph Epstein
Joseph Epstein (born Jan 9, 1937) is an American writer who was the editor of the magazine The American Scholar from 1975 to 1997. His essays and stories have appeared in books and other publications. He graduated from Senn High School and attended t
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Joseph Epstein (born Jan 9, 1937) is an American writer who was the editor of the magazine The American Scholar from 1975 to 1997. His essays and stories have appeared in books and other publications. He graduated from Senn High School and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960, and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1959. Epstein has published a number of essays and essay collections, including Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing, published in 1985. Epstein's essay "Who Killed Poetry?” published in Commentary in 1988, generated discussion in the literary community decades after its publication.
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