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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 22 > Richard Poirier, 83, critic, champion of literary classics

Richard Poirier, 83, critic, champion of literary classics

By Joe Holley / The Bulletin
August 22, 2009

WASHINGTON " Richard Poirier, 83, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York.

He suffered injuries in....

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