Author Bios
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- Claude McKay
- Jamaica; Russian book
- Langston Hughes
- White Godmother; The Negro artist
- Toomer
- looked white; dissappeared
- Edna St Vicent Millay
- bisexual; nearly concert pianist; Greenwich village
- Parker
- "poor son of a bitch"; left all $$ to NAACP in will
- Cummings
- Poem a day 8-22; WWI internment
- Flannery O'Conner
- very Catholic; dev. lupas and died young
- Vonnegut
- WWII journalist; taken prisoner and shoveled bodies; mom=suicide, son=schizo
- Le Guin
- Fantasy writer
- Erdrich
- Ojibua (native american)
- Alice Walker
- shot in eye with bb gun
- Warren
- wanted to be sea captain but brother blinded him with coal
- Roethke
- manic depressive; "won't leave till replaced"
- Bishop
- dad died at 8mos/ mom asylum at 1
- Randall Jarrell
- trained as pilot; celestial instructor
- Allen Ginsberg
- beat poetry
- Plath
- Sexton friend; confessional poet
- Brooks
- 1967 2nd black writers conference; black arts movmt
- Rich
- 3 kids in 5 yrs; "radicalizing experience"
- Dove
- Shibboleth
- Li Young Lee
- Indonesian; dad chinese exile
- Anne Sexton
- started writing as therapy