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Frank Shuffelton

Frank Shuffelton was an eminent scholar and critic of American literature. He taught at the University of Rochester for almost 40 years and served as a professor and chair of the Department of English. He published two books on Thomas Jefferson, including Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography, and edited Jefferson’s Notes on the State of VirginiaLetters of John and Abigail Adams, and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson. He died in 2010.

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