Joseph Campbell
(1904-1987)
American mythologist, writer and lecturer
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Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
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26 March 1904 White Plains, New York, United States
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31 October 1987 (aged 83) Honolulu, Hawaii,
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