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- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 1, 1922
- Died: February 7, 1990
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Where I'm at is a big Episcopal church in downtown Newark, New Jersey, sitting in the dark while I try to rescue the doomed bits and pieces of life, in the hope that a mere story can become Noah's Ark and deliver all the living things of the past to a bright and glorious immortality?
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