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Bard of the Common Man, Jimmy Breslin, a Deadline Artist, Gets the Library of America Treatment

The scribe who never earned a college degree now shares a shelf with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James.

Jimmy Breslin and actor/director Joseph Brooks on the set of the 1978 film 'If Ever I see You Again.'
Jimmy Breslin and actor/director Joseph Brooks on the set of the 1978 film 'If Ever I see You Again.' Michael Ochs, archives/Getty Images

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