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Article: Leslie Fiedler's "lifelong identity crisis".(Arts and Letters)(Obituary)
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- September 1, 2003
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I am not quite anything ever.
--Leslie Fiedler, Fieder on the Roof, Preface
PREFACE: Leslie Fiedler's lifelong search for an identity is now over. He died at the age of 85 on January 29, 2003.
At various stages of his maverick lip he would ask himself, like Shakespeare's King Lear, "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" He never did quite find out, but he never gave up asking and probing life's conundrums. At the very end of his lip, he was working on an article on D.H. Lawrence and was giving an interview to a magazine writer. He recalled going to a Bob Dylan (ne Zimmerman) concert in Canada in the company of Allen Ginsberg.
D.H. ...
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