Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn photograph collection [graphic]. ca. 1970-ca. 2005.

Kingston, Maxine Hong, 1940-

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Maxine Hong Kingston was born October 27, 1940 in Stockton, California. She received her B.A. degree in Education from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. Kingston taught high school English and mathematics in Hayward, Calif., and various subjects in a number of schools in Hawaii, and was a visiting associate professor of English at the University of Hawaii. Her book, Woman Warrior: Memoirs Of A Girlhood Among Ghosts, which was published in 1976, received a general nonfiction award ...

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 ...

Davis, Miles, 1926-1991

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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis left to study at the Juilliard School in New York City, before dropping...

Mcmillan, Terry

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Popular writer Terry McMillan was born on October 18, 1951, to Madeline Washington Tillman and Edward McMillan. She grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, a city about sixty miles northeast of Detroit. Her parents divorced when McMillan was thirteen and her father died three years later. McMillan's mother supported her family by working nights at a factory.As a child, McMillan had little interest in literature, but she discovered the joy of reading as a teenager, while working at a library shelving bo...

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982

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Born Dec. 22, 1905 in South Bend, IN; campaigned for many radical groups, particularly the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World), and espoused eroticism and general anarchy; influenced by poet William Carlos Williams and the Second Chicago Renaissance; founded San Francisco Poetry Center with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; although his Bohemian lifestyle was emulated by Beats, he did not like the movement for its artistic excess and lack of rigor; noted as an accomplished painter...

Carter, Betty, 1930-1998

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Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949-....

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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born in Manila in 1949. She moved to San Francisco in 1963, where she studied at the American Conservatory Theater. In 1978 she moved to New York, where she continues to work as a playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet and performance artists. She has won several Macdowell Colony Fellowships and the American Book Award in 1990 for her novel, "Dogeaters." From the description of Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn papers, 1974-2006. (University of Californi...

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997

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William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American experimental novelist, "beat" poet, and cultural icon. From the guide to the William S. Burroughs Letter, undated, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), American novelist, essayist, writer of experimental fiction. A primary member of the Beat generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected postwar popular culture as well as literature. From the ...

Oh, Sandra, 1971-

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Stewart, Patrick, 1940-

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Epithet: Major; RE, Director General of the Indo-European Telegraph British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x000395 Epithet: Commissioner of Estates for Banff British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x000393 Epithet: of Smith, Elder and Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : a...

Malanga, Gerard A.

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American poet and photographer. Lavin is publisher of Four Zoa Books. From the description of Leaping over gravestones ; [Typed letter signed, to Stu Lavin, 1976] / Gerard Malanga. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18447199 Gerard Joseph Malanga was born on Mar. 20, 1943 in New York City; attended Univ. of Cincinnati, 1960-61, and New School for Social Research, 1961-63; BA, Wagner College, 1964; attended Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1972; ...

Mitchell, Roscoe, 1940-

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Schneebaum, Tobias

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Tobias Schneebaum was born in 1922 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. During World War II he served in the Army as a radar mechanic, and after the war studied art under Tamayo, under whose suggestion he went to Mexico for three and a half years' painting, teaching and developing an increasing interest in archaeology and anthropology. He graduated from the City College of New York and received a degree in cultural anthropology from Goddard College. In 1955 he was granted a Fulbright Fellowship ...

Hancock, Herbie, 1940-....

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Pianist and composer Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock was born on April 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois to Winnie Belle and Wayman Edward Hancock. Hancock began to study music at age seven, and performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by age eleven. He played jazz in high school and double-majored in music and electrical engineering at Grinnell College.In 1960, Hancock was discovered by trumpeter Donald Byrd. After two years of session work with Byrd, as well as Phil W...