A true 'Great American' and a literary great appreciated throughout the world. His sympathetic characterisations of 'everyman' are recognisable in his own country and across all cultures. The mark of a true artist, that his representations of the human condition, though set 'locally', they resonate universally.

Genius.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

And he married Marilyn Monroe: everyman's dream!!

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

I'm with JP5, I give him more props for marrying Monroe.