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  • Happy Birthday, Marian Engel!
    Happy Birthday, Marian Engel!
    May 24, 2017

    Happy Birthday, Marian Engel!

    Today is the eighty-fourth birthday of Marian Engel, or it would be, had the novelist not died of cancer in 1985. Now, instead of a person, she is a name, survived like all people by her family and friends, ...

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