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Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (died 2005)
Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher. Davenport said that he became a reader only at 10, with a neighbor’s gift of one of the Tarzan series. Davenport was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, from 1948 to 1950.
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Guy Davenport was born in 1927. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
These figures put everyday life in Guy Davenport's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.
| Measure | 1927 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.21 | $3.45/gal |
| Average home | $6,100 | $435,000 |
| Average income | $3,700 | $67,500 |
| Movie ticket | $0.25 | $11.95 |
| Postage stamp | $0.02 | $0.73 |
| Population | 119.0M | 341 million |
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