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But Levy is many other things, including a man of letters (with a master’s degree in English from Harvard) who enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1943.
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Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Marty is an erudite man of letters who has long wanted to meet one of his favorite writers.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
This is a pretty good clue that the apartment was designed for a man of letters.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 19 May 2025
Frost was very much a man of letters, a classicist and, alongside his future wife, Elinor, a co-valedictorian of his high school, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Prestigious man of letters Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) spills down the snowy front steps at the home of a small-town family, the Stanleys — where he's planned a promo dinner in Mesalia, Ohio, right around the holidays.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
Conquest, the historian and man of letters, was an expert on Ukraine, and Russia.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2024
His three senior editors vie clumsily for the throne, distracting and neutralizing one another as only men of letters can.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
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Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Marty is an erudite man of letters who has long wanted to meet one of his favorite writers.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
This is a pretty good clue that the apartment was designed for a man of letters.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 19 May 2025
Frost was very much a man of letters, a classicist and, alongside his future wife, Elinor, a co-valedictorian of his high school, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Prestigious man of letters Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) spills down the snowy front steps at the home of a small-town family, the Stanleys — where he's planned a promo dinner in Mesalia, Ohio, right around the holidays.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
Conquest, the historian and man of letters, was an expert on Ukraine, and Russia.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2024
His three senior editors vie clumsily for the throne, distracting and neutralizing one another as only men of letters can.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Man of letters.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man%20of%20letters. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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