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Philip Elliot Slater (May 15, 1927 – June 20, 2013) was an American sociologist, social critic, novelist, and playwright. He was the author of 12 books and more than 20 plays, and was a blogger for The Huffington Post. Formerly a lecturer at Harvard for six years and a professor and chair of the sociology department at Brandeis University where he taught for a decade, he left academia at the age of 44 after writing The Pursuit of Loneliness (1970), a critique of American culture.