Jay Cantor

born 1948 · American novelist and essayist

Jay Cantor is an American novelist and essayist who teaches at Tufts University. His first novel, The Death of Che Guevara (Knopf, 1983), is a work of fiction that imagines Guevara’s life and death. Its narration contains the earliest version of this line we could find.

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“Silence is argument carried out by other means”

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