Michael George Cooke (September 11, 1934 – September 11, 1990) was an American academic. Cooke graduated from

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in 1957, and completed doctoral studies at the

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in 1962. He then began teaching at Yale, accepting an assistant professorship at his alma mater in 1968. Cooke later taught at the

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and at

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, before returning to Yale in 1971. Cooke was later appointed by Yale as the Bird White Housum Professor of English Literature in 1987. Cooke was injured in a traffic collision in

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, on September 11, 1990, his 56th birthday. He died later that day at St. Raphael's Hospital in

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