Tyrmand, Leopold

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Tyrmand, Leopold

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Polish-American novelist and author; vice president, Rockford Institute, 1980-1985; editor, Chronicles of Culture, 1977-1985.

From the description of Leopold Tyrmand papers, 1941-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872270

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

1920, May 16 Born, Warsaw, Poland 1938 1939 Student, Department of Architecture, L'Academie des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1941 Wilno, Soviet occupied zone, arrested and sentenced for 25 years for political activities 1942 1944 Voluntary labor, Germany 1944 Concentration camp prisoner, Norway 1946 Chief-correspondent, Polish Press Agency, Norway 1946 Returned to Poland 1947 1948 Assumed various positions as journalist 1949 1953 Joined Tygodnik Powszechny 1954 Wrote Dziennik, 1954 1955 Author, Zly 1956 Organized First Jazz Music Festival 1959 Author, Seven Long Voyages 1961 Author, Filip 1964 Suspended from publishing 1965 Traveled around Europe 1966 State Department invitation to U.S. 1967 U.S. permanent residence 1967 Published first essays, New Yorker Magazine 1968 1969 Lecturer, Slavic Literature Department, Columbia University 1970 Author, Notebook of a Dilettante 1970 Editor, Kultura Essays, Explorations in Freedom 1971 Married Mary Ellen Fox 1972 Author, Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative 1976 1980 Associate Director, Rockford College 1977 1985 Editor, Chronicles of Culture 1978 Author, Media Shangri-La 1981 Appointed Vice-President, Rockford College Edits, Rockford Papers 1985 Author, Ugly, Beautiful People 1985, March, 19 Died, Fort Myers, Florida From the guide to the Leopold Tyrmand Papers, 1941-1985, (Hoover Institution Archives)

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