URI(s)
Fuller Name
- Harvey Irwin
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1924-01-27
Death Date
- 2013-01-07
Birth Place
- Chicago, Ill.
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
Poet
Newspaper editor
Periodical editor
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Sources
- found: His The light holds, 1984:CIP t.p. (Harvey Shapiro)
- found: LC data base, 10/26/83(hdg.: Shapiro, Harvey)
- found: NUCMC data from Boston Univ. Lib. for Greenfeld, J. Papers, 1943-1971(Harvey Shapiro; b. 1924)
- found: WWA, 1973/74(Shapiro, Harvey; b. 1924; poet; s. Jacob J. & Dorothy (Cohen) Shapiro; m. Edna Lewis Kaufman; member editorial staff, New York; ass't editor, NY Times mag.; res.: Chicago)
- found: New York times WWW site, Jan. 8, 2013(in obituary published Jan. 7: Harvey Shapiro; b. Harvey Irwin Shapiro, Jan. 27, 1924, Chicago; d. Monday [Jan. 7, 2013], Manhattan, aged 88; admired American poet who chose newspaper work over the time-honored academic vocation of his peers, and who as an editor at The New York times made an epochal assignment--what became the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail--that ultimately never appeared in the newspaper)
LC Classification
- PS3537.H264
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Change Notes
- 1983-10-28: new
- 2013-01-08: revised
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