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Person Detail: Hamilton Basso

General Information:
Full Name: Hamilton Basso
Biography:
(1904-1964) Writer. Hamilton Basso was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1904, and moved in 1926 to Greenwich Village in New York City where he lived for a few years. He was the author of eleven novels.
Life Events:
Year: 1904 Event: BIRTH (Unknown) County
Hamilton Basso was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1904. 
Year: 1926 Event: RESIDENCE New York County
Basso moved to Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York in 1926 and lived there for a few years. 
Year: 1929 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Relics and Angels
Novel. 
Year: 1930 Event: RESIDENCE (Unknown) County
Basso lived in New York during the 1930s and 1940s, writing for the New Republic, Time, and the New Yorker.  
Year: 1933 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Beauregard, the Great Creole
Biography. 
Year: 1934 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Cinnamon Seed
Novel. 
Year: 1935 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
In Their Own Image
Novel. 
Year: 1936 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Courthouse Square
Novel. 
Year: 1939 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Days Before Lent
Novel. Winner of the Southern Writer's Award for 1940. 
Year: 1942 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Sun in Capricorn
Novel. 
Year: 1943 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Mainstream
Collection of noted persons' profiles. 
Year: 1948 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
The World from Jackson Square
Collection of writings done with his wife. 
Year: 1954 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
The View from Pompey's Head
Novel. 
Year: 1959 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
The Light Infantry Ball
Novel. 
Year: 1960 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
A Quota of Seaweed
Collection of essays. 
Year: 1964 Event: DEATH (Unknown) County
Basso died in New Haven, Connecticut in 1964. 
Year: 1964 Event: INTERMENT (Unknown) County
Basso was interred at Lyons Plain Cemetery, Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut. 
Year: 1964 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
A Touch of the Dragon
Novel. 

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