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George Steiner


Born
in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
April 23, 1929

Died
February 03, 2020

Genre
Fiction, Philosophy, Poetry


See also: George A. Steiner, author on Management and Planning.

Dr. Francis George Steiner was an essayist, novelist, philosopher, literary critic, and educator. He wrote for The New Yorker for over thirty years, contributing over two hundred reviews. Among his many awards, he received The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award from Stanford University 1998. He lived in Cambridge, England, with his wife, historian Zara Shakow Steiner.

In 1950 he earned an M.A. from Harvard University, where he won the Bell Prize in American Literature, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University (Balliol College) on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1955. He was then a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, for two years. He becam ...more

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“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
― George Steiner
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“when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ”
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tags: language, linguistics, memory, philosophy, world
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“the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.”
― George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters
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