What a tremendous loss--friend, scholar, and professor--Jim will be missed.

Jocelyn

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On Jan 27, 2012, at 14:20, Jerome Loving <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> James M. Cox, author of MARK TWAIN AND THE FATE OF HUMOR and countless
> essays on Twain and other American authors died yesterday at his home in
> Independence, Virginia.  He was 86.
>
> Jerome Loving