Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954

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Name (Latin)
Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954
Other forms of name
Bacon, Leonard, 1887-
Date of birth
1887
Date of death
1954
Gender
male
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Other Identifiers
VIAF: 39750079
Wikidata: Q6525095
Library of congress: no 96044132
OCoLC: oca04152536
Sources of Information
  • Lines, 1933:t.p. (Leonard Bacon)
  • OCLC, 9/3/96(hdg.: Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954)
Wikipedia description:

Leonard Bacon (1887–1954) was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. The great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon, he graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until 1923. In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym 'Autholycus'. He and his family lived in Florence, Italy from 1927 to 1932. He won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1942.

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