Gorham Munson
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Gorham Bert Munson (1896–1969) was an American literary critic.
Born in Amityville, New York, he attended Wesleyan University. Afterward he became a part of the Greenwich Village scene of avante-garde writers.
In 1922 he founded and edited a literary review called Secession. Its contributors included Malcolm Cowley, Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters among others.
He joined the faculty of the New School in 1927 and spent the remainder of his career as an academic.
