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- Aug 9, 2006
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- Jesse F. Ballenger
- About Me
- I am a historian of medicine and have written about the history of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Philadelphia, PA
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- M. T. Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Samuel Beckett, Wendell Berry, Ray Bradbury, Albert Camus, John Dominic Crossan, Don DeLillo, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, Paul Farmer, David Halberstam, Langston Hughes, Ivan Illich, Robinson Jeffers, Tracy Kidder, Arthur Kleinman, Milan Kundera, Mark Kurlansky, Stanisław Lem, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Walter Mosley, Alice Munro, Tawni O'Dell, Richard Powers, Charles E. Rosenberg, J. D. Salinger, Jonathan Schell, Steven Shapin, Rebecca Solnit, Wisława Szymborska, Mark Twain
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Bookstores: Big Blue Marble Bookstore, Joseph Fox Bookshop, Penn Book Center, Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books
Libraries: Case Western Reserve University - Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library - Main, Free Library of Philadelphia - Lovett Branch, Penn State University Libraries
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