Letters from Fairfield Porter and others to Carl Morse
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Porter, Fairfield, 1907-1975
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Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) was a painter and critic from Southampton, N.Y. Fairfield Porter was born near Chicago in 1907, the fourth of five children of James and Ruth Furness Porter. His father was an architect, his mother a poet from a literary family, and Porter grew up in an environment where art and literature were highly valued. His father designed the family homes in Winnetka, Illinois and on Great Spruce Head Island, an island in Maine that he purchased for the family in 1912....
Morse, Carl
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Carl Morse was a gay American writer with an affection for the British. Morse grew up in Maine, attended Yale University, and spent two years in France on a Fulbright scholarship, where he came in contact with many British writers. During the 1980s and 90s, he exercised an important influence on a generation of British gay and lesbian writers and performing artists through his inclusion in anthologies printed by Gay Men's Press, the Oscars Press and Gay Sweatshop; performances of his work at t...
Schuyler, James Marcus 1923-1991
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Born on November 9, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, James Marcus Schuyler experienced a peripatetic childhood. His family lived for a time in Downer's Grove, a suburb of Chicago, then Washington, D.C., and later Chevy Chase, Maryland. His parents divorced early in Schuyler's childhood and he remained with his mother and step-father. At the age of twelve, his family moved to Buffalo, New York, and two years later to East Aurora, a suburb outside of Buffalo. Schuyler attended B...
Porter, Anne Elizabeth, 1911-2011
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Anne Elizabeth Porter (November 6, 1911 - October 10, 2011) was an American poet. She wrote poetry from her childhood. She decided to write more after her husband, painter Fairfield Porter, died in 1975. Her first book, An Altogether Different Language, came out when she was 83 years old. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1994. Her poems were often about spiritual subjects. Porter died just before her 100th birthday in 2011....
