"The most valuable thing in my college Latin courses was that they were under a Virginian from the , whose belief in this was inherited and profound and therefore contagious."
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Stark Young
Stark Young (October 11, 1881 – January 6, 1963) was an American professor, novelist, playwright, theater critic, essayist, short story writer, translator, essayist, memoirist, and painter of flowers and landscapes. He is best known for his 1934 novel .
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