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The Gospel according to Anthony Heilbut

Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 24 June 1996

From Mahalia Jackson to Death in Venice might seem a long journey. But for Anthony Heilbut, the renowned gospel expert and author of a new biography of Thomas Mann, the connections are not so outlandish.

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