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James Maraniss (March 22, 1945 – January 9, 2022) was an American academic. He was professor of Spanish and European studies at Amherst College from 1972 to 2015. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for an opera based on the early 17th-century drama La Vida es sueño by Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Maraniss died from a heart attack on January 9, 2022, at the age of 75.