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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>[posted on behalf of Brenda Silver]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Another death in the Woolf community, Alex Zwerdling, whose book <i>Virginia Woolf and the Real World </i>did so much to counter the prevailing myths about her at the time. Alex had to fight his publisher to use the title; he also fought to support and legitimize the younger Woolf scholars at the time, myself included. I wanted to share his obituary for those who knew him. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.dailycal.org/2017/05/30/campus-english-professor-emeritus-alex-zwerdling-dies-84/" id=LPlnk829134>http://www.dailycal.org/2017/05/30/campus-english-professor-emeritus-alex-zwerdling-dies-84/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;overflow:auto' id="LPBorder_GT_14967634275040.1140737400345464"><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="90%" style='width:90.0%;background:white;border-top:dotted #C8C8C8 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:dotted #C8C8C8 1.0pt;border-right:none'><tr><td width=250 valign=top style='width:187.5pt;border:none;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt .75pt'><div style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;display:table' id="LPImageContainer_14967634274890.7769413005554456"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;background:white'><a href="http://www.dailycal.org/2017/05/30/campus-english-professor-emeritus-alex-zwerdling-dies-84/" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=206 height=250 id="LPThumbnailImageID_14967634274960.33647002464694875" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.dailycal.org/assets/uploads/2017/05/Zwerdlingmug-copy.jpg"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;display:table-cell' id="TextCell_14967634275000.25903189833206164"><div id="LPTitle_14967634275000.44885650773935504"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:15.75pt'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#00693E'><a href="http://www.dailycal.org/2017/05/30/campus-english-professor-emeritus-alex-zwerdling-dies-84/" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'>Campus English professor emeritus Alex Zwerdling dies at 84 | The Daily Californian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt' id="LPMetadata_14967634275020.38621905452414773"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;line-height:10.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#666666'><a href="http://www.dailycal.org">www.dailycal.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="LPDescription_14967634275030.24914737536910325"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#666666'>Campus English professor emeritus Alex Zwerdling died May 16 after a protracted illness. He was 84.Read More…<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Brenda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>