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He studied philosophy at the university of chicago and graduated in 1932. He found his mature voice early in the first of the swordandsorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian fafhrd and. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivationsresearch men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, halfhysterical laughter. In addition to being an author, leiber was also a poet, actor, playwright, chess player and a champion fencer.
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