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Born December 23, 1860 • Chicago • Illinois
Died September 26, 1936 (aged 75) • Arequipa • Peru
Founder “Poetry”
Movement / Style Chicago literary renaissance • Imagists

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Sterling Brown
American educator, literary critic and poet
Untermeyer, Louis
Louis Untermeyer
American author and editor
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Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
H. L. Mencken stands on a staircase at his Baltimore home, holding a cigar and leaning on the banister, with framed pictures covering the wall behind him.
H.L. Mencken
American writer
Mark Van Doren.
Mark Van Doren
American writer
Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
American author
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
American writer
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S.S. Van Dine
American critic, editor, and author
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Dudley Fitts
American teacher, critic, poet and translator
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Karl Shapiro
American poet
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Joseph Blanco White
Spanish-English writer
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac
American writer
Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
American writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet

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