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Person Detail: Muriel Rukeyser
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| Full Name: Muriel Rukeyser | ||
| Biography: (1913-1980) Very political poet, journalist. Muriel Rukeyser was born in New York City. She attended the Fieldston schools and matriculated at Vassar. From 1930-1932, she attended Columbia University. She traveled to Alabama to cover the Scottsboro case. She was also involved with the International Labor Defense, worked for the "Daily Worker," went to Spain to cover the People's Olympiad, which was set up as an alternative to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. |
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| 1913 |
New York County Muriel Rukeyser was born in New York City. |
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| 1980 |
(Unknown) County Muriel Rukeyser died in New York in 1980. |
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| 1930 |
New York County Rukeyser attended Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, from 1930 until 1932. |
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| 1939 |
(Unknown) County A Turning Wind Collection of poetry. |
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| 1944 |
(Unknown) County Beast in View Collection of poetry. |
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| 1948 |
(Unknown) County The Green Wave (Pub: Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry with Octavio Paz. |
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| 1949 |
(Unknown) County Elegies |
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| 1958 |
(Unknown) County Body of Waking (Pub: New York: Harper. ISBN: ) |
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| 1968 |
(Unknown) County The Speed of Darkness (Pub: New York: Random House. ISBN: ) |
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| 1973 |
(Unknown) County Breaking Open |
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| 1976 |
(Unknown) County The Gates: Poems (Pub: New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: ) |
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| 1962 |
(Unknown) County Waterlily Fire: Poems, 1935-1962 (Pub: New York: Macmillan. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry. |
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| 1935 |
(Unknown) County Theory of Flight (Pub: New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN: ) Foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet. |
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New York County Rukeyser lived in Manhattan, New York. |
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Dutchess County Rukeyser matriculated at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. |
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