Joseph Campbell
American professor of literature
Born on: March 26, 1904Died on: October 31, 1987
Aged: 83 years 219 days (1003 months)
Birth Sign: Aries
Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion.
His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
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