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Robert Faggen

Robert Faggen is a professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College in California, as well as a Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Graves fellow. He has written many critical works, including The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost and Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin. Faggen has also edited writing collections, such as The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost.

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