Papers, 1970-1983.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Girodias, Maurice

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Maurice Girodias was born in 1919, the son of Jack Kahane, who came from a well-established Anglo-Jewish family in Manchester, and his French wife whose family had made their fortune building railways in Argentina. Jack Kahane set up in business in Paris as a publisher and founded the Obelisk Press which produced the work of writers prevented by censorship laws from being published in their own countries, such as Henry Miller, as well as more conventional pornography. The young Maur...

Harris, Marguerite Tjader

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Publisher, poet; interviewee married Moses Harris. From the description of Reminiscences of Marguerite Harris : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734027 ...

Bowering, George, 1935-

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George Bowering was born in Penticton, B.C. He attended Victoria College and then the University of British Columbia, where he obtained his B.A. in 1960, then his M.A. in 1963. He also attended the University of Western Ontario from 1966-1967. Bowering worked at a variety of jobs: aerial photographer with the RCAF (1954-1957), fruit-picker, and editor of and contributor to magazines in Canada and the United States. Bowering was writer-in-residence and lecturer at Sir George Williams University (...

Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 1947-

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Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006

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American author. From the description of Papers. 1970-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12926111 American author and poet. From the description of Papers, 1970-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419455 Carol Bergé was born in New York in 1955. She is the author of numerous pieces of prose. Her volumes of poetry include Secrets, gossip and slander (1984), From a soft angle: poems about women (1...

Bennett, John, 1938 March 29-

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Childs, Barney

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Enslin, Theodore

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Theodore Enslin was born in Chester, PA on March 25, 1925. He studied musical composition privately with Nadia Boulanger and Francis Judd Cooke. He has two children, Deirdre and Jonathan Morton, from his first marriage with Mildred Marie Stout in 1945. He divorced in 1961 and married Alison Jane Jose in 1969; they have a son, Jacob Hezekiah. Theodore Enslin has written many books of poetry, including "Forms" (1971-1973), "The Poems" (1970), "Views" (1973), "Synthesis" (1975) "Etudes" (1972) and ...

Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008

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Hayden Carruth (1921-2008) was a poet, professor, and a editor. He lived in Johnson, Vermont, during the time of the correspondence. For more information, see the Poetry Foundation biography . From the guide to the Hayden Carruth Letters, 1973-1975, (Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.) ...

Banks, Russell, 1940-....

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Blackburn, Paul (Paul Richard)

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American poet associated with the projective verse movement. From the description of Paul Blackburn letters, 1949. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 42721935 American poet. From the description of Affinities I : typescript, [ca. 1957]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32416027 From the description of The lottery : annotated typescript, [ca. 1956] / PB. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat reco...

Coover, Robert

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Robert Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa, in 1932 and graduated from Herrin Township High School in 1949. He worked at The Southern Illinoisan briefly as a reporter and spent two years attending Southern Illinois University Carbondale before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree at Indiana University in 1953. Mr. Coover later earned a Master of Arts degree at the University of Chicago in 1965. His first novel published in 1966, "The Origin of the Brunists,"was the winner of theWilliam Faulkner A...

Fox, Hugh, 1932-2011

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Hugh Fox was born into an Irish-Catholic family in Chicago in 1932. He became interested in literature at a young age, and got his master's degree in the Humanities at Chicago's Loyola University. He went on to get his Ph. D. in American literature from the University of Illinois, and became a teacher at Loyola University in Los Angeles. In the early 1960s, he served as visiting professor of American Studies in Mexico and Caracas, Venezuela. While teaching in South America, he worked on his nove...

Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002

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Short story writer, novelist, essayist, painter and art critic, and student at Black Mountain College (early 1950s), of New York, N.Y. From the description of Fielding Dawson papers, ca. 1949-1983. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28417602 ...

Corman, Cid

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American poet and editor of the small magazine Origin. From the description of Letters : Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Mr. & Mrs. Kirgo, 1951 May 8-July 9. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32415686 Highly prolific poet, translator, and prose writer, Cid Corman was born in Boston in 1924. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Tufts University in 1941, graduating in 1945. He completed post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and the Universit...

Gardner, Isabella, 1867?-

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Antin, David

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David Antin is a performance artist, experimental poet, curator, and critic who developed a unique literary form, the "talk piece." He has been a key figure in the New York literary and art scene for forty years, and was a long-time professor at the University of California at San Diego. From the description of David Antin papers, 1954-2006. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 668135856 Biographical/Historical Note ...

Dixon, Stephen, 1936-....

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Biographical Note: Stephen Dixon is a short-story writer and novelist. He teaches fiction in the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. From the description of Stephen Dixon papers, 1950-1990. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48369028 ...

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-....

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Joseph Bruchac received his Ph.D. from Union Institute (Ohio) in 1975. He was publisher and editor of Greenfield Review from 1969-1990 and instructor in Creative Writing and in African and Black Literatures from 1969-73 at Skidmore College in New York. He is a well-known poet, storyteller, novelist and children's author who focuses on Native American topics. He has won many awards for his work including the Woodcraft Circle Writer of the Year autobiography award in 1998 for Bowman's Store. ...

Federman, Raymond

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Author. From the description of Letters, 1962-1992. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 41283690 ...