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Frederick R. Karl Literary S ...
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040513
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Frederick R. Karl, 77, a literary scholar known for his mammoth biographies of William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad and other figures, died April 30 in New York. He had kidney disease.
Dr. Karl, an emeritus professor of City College of New York and New York University, was perhaps best known for his extensive study of Conrad. "Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives" (1979), weighed in at 1,008 pages and employed a novelistic treatment.
His next major biography was the 1,131-page "William Faulkner: American Writer" (1989), which some reviewers faulted for engaging in excessive speculation and ...
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