George Steiner
Acting
April 23, 1929
Died February 3, 2020 (90 years old)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
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Biography
Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath". Among his admirers, Steiner is ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world". English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a "late, l...
