Person Detail: Kenneth Fearing

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Full Name: Kenneth Fearing | ||
Biography: (1902-1961) Poet, writer, novelist. In 1925 Kenneth Fearing moved to New York where he began a career as a poet. During the Twenties and Thirties his poetry was published in "New Masses", "The New Yorker", and "Poetry." He published his first novel, "The Hospital", in 1939. He also published pulp fiction, including soft-pornography, under the name Kirk Wolff. |
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1902 |
(Unknown) County Kenneth Flexner Fearing was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 28, 1902. |
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1961 |
New York County Kenneth Fearing died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York, on June 26, 1961. |
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1925 |
Richmond County Mr. Fearing moved to Staten Island, New York, and later to Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York. |
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1925 |
New York County Mr. Fearing lived at 311 West 11th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. |
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1940 |
New York County Collected Poems (Pub: Random House ISBN: 0404146619 / 978-0404146610) Poetry Collection. |
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1929 |
New York County Angel Arms (Pub: Coward-McCann ISBN: ) Poetry Collection. An attack on American life and its perceived decline. |
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1935 |
New York County Poems (Pub: Dynamo ISBN: ) Poetry collection. |
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1938 |
New York County Dead Reckoning (Pub: Random House ISBN: ) Poetry Collection. |
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1943 |
New York County Afternoon of a Pawn Broker and Other Poems (Pub: Harcourt, Brace and Company ISBN: ) Poetry Collection. |
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1948 |
New York County Stranger at Coney Island and Other Poems (Pub: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company ISBN: ) Poetry. |
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1956 |
(Unknown) County New and Selected Poems (Pub: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253157307 / 978-0253157300) Poetry Collection |
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1939 |
New York County The Hospital (Pub: Ramdom House ISBN: ) Novel. |
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1941 |
New York County Dagger of the Mind (Pub: Random House ISBN: ) Novel. |
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1942 |
New York County Clark Gifford's Body (Pub: Random House ISBN: ) Novel |
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1946 |
New York County The Big Clock (Pub: Harcourt, Brace and Company ISBN: ) Crime Novel. American Noir. Twice made into a movie: "The Big Clock", 1948 and "No Way Out", 1987. |
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1951 |
New York County Loneliest Girl in the World (Pub: New York: Harcourt Brace & Company ISBN: ) Novel. |
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1954 |
New York County The Generous Heart (Pub: Harcourt Brace ISBN: ) Novel. |
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1960 |
New York County The Crozart Story (Pub: Doubleday and Company ISBN: ) Novel. |
