Rampersad Killed in Iranian Strike on Jordan Base
US Army Sgt Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York, was killed in the Iranian missile strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan and the Pentagon updated her status to believed deceased as part of ongoing identification efforts. Family and friends remember her as a social butterfly with a passion for travel, and her dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base was accompanied by tributes from national leaders and military officials.
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About Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad is a biographer, literary critic, and academic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965. The second volume (1989) of his Life of Langston Hughes was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and Ralph Ellison: A Biography was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Everything about Arnold Rampersad →- Occupation
- biographer, academic, university teacher, literary scholar
- Citizenship
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Born
- November 13, 1941
- Website
- https://profiles.stanford.edu/arnold-rampersad