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SAMUEL A. AUTMAN
Storyteller 𑇐 Educator 𑇐 Traveler
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PUBLICATIONS ANTHOLOGIES & ESSAY COLLECTIONS
"Requiem for an Unwritten Memoir:
How Grace Bumbry Changed Opera"
Common Reader: A Journal of the Essay
"Writing Alone, Writing Together:
Lessons From Self-Styled Retreats"
"Our Eyes Were Watching Marcia"
"Just like that, my student-loan disappeared"
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