John Brooks Wheelwright

John Brooks Wheelwright
Born	September 9, 1897(1897-09-09) Milton, Massachusetts U.S.
Died	September 13, 1940(1940-09-13) (aged 43) Boston, Mississippi, United States
Occupation	poet
Nationality	American
Period	1923-1940
Literary movement	Modernism, Socialist
Influences Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, William Blake
Influenced John Ashbery

John Brooks Wheelwright (sometimes Wheelright) (9 September 1897–13 September 1940) was an American poet from a Boston Brahmin background. He belonged to the poetic avant garde of the 1930s and was a Marxist, a founder-member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the United States. He was bisexual.^[1]

Wheelwright was descended from the 17th-century clergyman John Wheelwright on his father's side and the 18th-century Massachusetts governor John Brooks on his mother's side. He studied at Harvard University and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before practising as an architect in Boston. He was editor of the magazine Poetry for a Dime.^[2]

Works

(ed.) A History of the New England Poetry Club, 1932.
Rock and Shell: Poems 1923-1933, 1933.
Mirrors of Venus: A Novel in Sonnets, 1914-1938, 1938.
Political Self-Portrait, 1940
Selected Poems, 1941.
Collected Poems, ed. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, 1972.

References

^ "American Writers on the Left", glbtq.com, 2002, http://www.glbtq.com/literature/am_mawriters_left.html, retrieved 2007-12-20
^ Paul Christensen, 'Wheelwright, John (Brooks)', 20th Century American Literature, Macmillan, 1980, pp.619-620

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Biography

Persondata
Name	Wheelwright, John Brooks
Alternative names
Short description	American poet
Date of birth	9 September 1897
Place of birth	Milton, Massachusetts U.S.
Date of death	13 September 1940
Place of death	Boston, Mississippi, United States