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Born April 27, 1929 • New York City • New York
Died May 18, 2006 (aged 77) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Beat movement • avant-garde
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen
American author and scholar
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
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Peter Matthiessen
American author
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
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Kay Boyle
American author
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
American author
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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
American author
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
American writer
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
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Robert McAlmon
American author
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Mabel Loomis Todd
American writer and editor
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Sterling Brown
American educator, literary critic and poet
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Reed Whittemore
American teacher and poet
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S.S. Van Dine
American critic, editor, and author
Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Arna Bontemps
American writer
Christopher Morley.
Christopher Morley
American author

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