Date of Birth
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22-March-1924
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Place of Birth
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Pasadena
(Los Angeles County, United States of America, California, Area code 626)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Jr. Paul Fussell
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Profession
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Historian, Author, Teacher
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Paul Fussell was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of topics, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America's class system. He is best known for his writings about World War I and II, which explore what he felt was the gap between the romantic myth and reality of war; he made a "career out of refusing to disguise it or elevate it".
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