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JOSEPH CAMPBELL (March 26, 1904 - October 30, 1987)

Joseph Campbell was born on March 26, 1904 in New York. He went to college at Colombia University and received his bachelors degree in English Literature and masters degree in Medieval literature. He married his wife Jean Erdman in 1938. Campbell was an American mythologist and writer. He wrote many books in his career. Later he wrote and sold his first story __Strictly Platonic__. One of his most famous works was discovering that everyone has this cycle in the back of their minds. This cycle is known as the monomyth cycle. He worked very closely with George Lucas during the filming of the original three episodes of Star Wars. The reason for this was because George Lucas knew if he wanted a great movie he should follow the cycle discovered by Joseph Campbell. Several elements of Joseph Campbell's ideas were present such as light verses dark and all three of them follow the monomyth cycle very closely. Campbell died in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 31, 1987.
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