e. e. cummings

E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings
Birthday	Sunday, October 14, 1894
Birthplace	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died	Monday, September 03, 1962
Nationality	American
Known for	Poems, plays and other works of art

cummings, e. e. (Edward Estlin)

(1894–1962) poet, writer, painter; born in Cambridge, Mass. He studied at Harvard (B.A. 1915; M.A. 1916). As a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I, he got in trouble with the French who kept him in a detention camp for six months; he described the experience in The Enormous Room (1922). He traveled widely but was based in New York City. He is known for his idiosyncratic and typographically inventive poetry, such as Tulips and Chimneys (1937, complete edition). He wrote various works for the stage and was an accomplished painter.

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