John Malcolm Brinnin

John Malcolm Brinnin (born September 13, 1916 in Halifax , Canada , † June 25, 1998 in Key West ) was a Canadian-American writer .

Life

Brinnin's parents moved with him to Detroit , USA, in 1921 , where he later attended the University of Michigan . He also worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor and published the magazine Signatures from 1936–1938 . He did his MA at Harvard University . Between 1949 and 1956, Brinnin was director of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Poetry Center. Between 1949 and 1953 he brought Dylan Thomas several times from Wales on reading tours to the USA and accompanied him to his readings, but he could not contain Thomas' alcoholism and physical decline. Brinnin wrote a monograph on Thomas, as well as TS Eliot , Gertrude Stein , Truman Capote and William Carlos Williams .

Brinnin published seven volumes of his own poetry by 1970, but afterwards, according to his friend Richard Wilbur , preferred to write books about travel, he crossed the Atlantic sixty times. He compiled three anthologies of modern American and British poetry and was invited to teach at various universities, including Vassar College , Boston University , the University of Connecticut, and Harvard University .

In 1978 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Works (selection)

• Dylan Thomas in America: The Slow Death of a Poet . From the American. transfer by Hanns Krammer. Bremen: Schünemann, 1962
• The third rose: Gertrude Stein and her world . From the American. transfer by Maria Wolff. Stuttgart: Goverts, 1960
• The Garden is Political . New York, The Macmillan company, 1942
• The Lincoln Lyrics . Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, 1942
• No Arch, No Triumph . New York, AA button, 1945
• The Sorrows of Cold Stone . Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press 1951
• Selected Poems of John Malcolm Brinnin . Boston, Little, Brown 1963
• with Bill Read (Ed.): The modern poets, an American-British anthology. With photos by Rollie McKenna . New York, McGraw-Hill 1963
• Skin Diving in the Virgins, and Other Poems . New York, Delacorte Press 1970
• The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic . 1971
  • with Kenneth Gaulin: Grand Hotels of the Seas: The golden era of luxury liners . German by Marcus Wuermli. Arrangement by Peter Pedersen. Heyne, Munich 1988
• Beau Voyage: Life Aboard the Last Great Ships . 1981

literature

• John Malcolm Brinnin: Sextet: TS Eliot & Truman Capote & Others . Autobiography. 1981

Web links

• Literature by and about John Malcolm Brinnin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about John Malcolm Brinnin in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• John Malcolm Brinnin , at Encyclopædia Britannica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Stewart: John Malcolm Brinnin, Poet And Biographer, Dies at 81 , NYT , June 30, 1998
2. ↑ Members: John Malcolm Brinnin. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 18, 2019 .