biography
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| lived:
| (1892–1944)
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in Charles Town, West Virginia, USA. He studied at Princeton (1913–17) and published his first book of poetry, Green Fruit (1917), before serving in the army (1917–19). After working as managing editor for Vanity Fair (1920–22), he travelled in Europe (1922–4), settled in France, and befriended English and American expatriate writers. He returned to America (1933) and settled in South Chatham, MA (1937). He wrote novels, short stories, and literary criticism, but is best known for his lyric poetry, as in The Collected Poems of John Peale Bishop (1948). |
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