Claude Fredericks

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Claude Fredericks
Born	October 14, 1923 Springfield, Missouri^{[citation needed]}
Died	January 11, 2013(2013-01-11) (aged 89) Pawlet, Vermont^{[citation needed]}
Occupation	writer, teacher
Nationality	American
Notable work(s)	Journals

Claude Fredericks (October 14, 1923 - January 11, 2013) was an American poet, playwright, printer, writer, and teacher. He was professor of literature at Bennington College in Vermont for over thirty years.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In the late 1940s Fredericks founded Banyan Press, which for decades issued hand-set limited editions by writers such as Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, and James Merrill. Fredericks's Journals was published in several volumes. More than 50,000 manuscript pages are held by the Getty Center inLos Angeles, California.^[1]

As a teacher, Fredericks's students included the novelists Donna Tartt (who modeled a character on Fredericks in The Secret History (1993) and who dedicated The Goldfinch (2013) to Fredericks)^{[citation needed]} and Bret Easton Ellis; writers Anne Waldman, Kathleen Norris, and Alec Wilkinson; Roger Kimball, editor and publisher of The New Criterion; Thomas Matthews, editor of The Wine Spectator; composer Peter Golub; and the Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Fredericks had a romantic relationship in the early 1950s with James Merrill. Merrill wrote about the relationship in his 1993 memoir, A Different Person.

References

↑ Claude Fredericks papers, Getty Center, Los Angeles

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Name	Fredericks, Claude
Alternative names
Short description	American poet, playwright, printer, prolific writer of journals and letters, and professor at Bennington College
Date of birth	October 14, 1923
Place of birth	Springfield, Missouri
Date of death	January 11, 2013
Place of death	Pawlet, Vermont

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