Peter Brooks (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American writer
Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1938
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Profession: literary critic
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Peter Brooks (writer)
- Peter Brooks (born 1938) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and Andrew W.
- Mellon Scholar in the department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
- He has been Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia.
- Among his many accomplishments is the founding of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University.
- Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, law, and psychoanalysis.
- He was influenced by fellow Yale scholar, Paul de Man, to whom his book Reading for the Plot is dedicated.
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