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Literary scholar Cheryl A. Wall dies at age 71

| April 24, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Cheryl A. Wall, a longtime Rutgers University professor and prominent scholar of African American women writers who edited two Library of America volumes of Zora Neale Hurston's work, has died at age 71.

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