Richard Dorson
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American folklorist (1916–1981)
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- Works
- 1
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- Folk Tales Told Around the World;
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Bloomington
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral student
- Barbro Klein
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- date of birth
- 1916-00-00
- date of death
- 1981-09-11
- birth name
- Richard Mercer Dorson
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- Richard Dorson
- interested in
- folkloristics
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1916 births1981 deaths20th-century American historians20th-century American male writersAmerican folkloristsAmerican male non-fiction writersCollectors of fairy talesHarvard College alumniHarvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumniIndiana University Bloomington facultyMichigan State University facultyPresidents of the American Folklore Society