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(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.

Full Name

Muriel Rukeyser

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Rukeyser lived in Manhattan, New York.

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RESIDENCE

Rukeyser matriculated at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

1913

BIRTH

Muriel Rukeyser was born in New York City.

1930

RESIDENCE

Rukeyser attended Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, from 1930 until 1932.

1935

LITWORK

Theory of Flight
New Haven: Yale University Press.

Foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet.

1939

LITWORK

A Turning Wind


Collection of poetry.

1944

LITWORK

Beast in View


Collection of poetry.

1948

LITWORK

The Green Wave
Garden City, New York: Doubleday.

Collection of poetry with Octavio Paz.

1949

LITWORK

Elegies

1958

LITWORK

Body of Waking
New York: Harper.

1962

LITWORK

Waterlily Fire: Poems, 1935-1962
New York: Macmillan.

Collection of poetry.

1968

LITWORK

The Speed of Darkness
New York: Random House.

1973

LITWORK

Breaking Open

1976

LITWORK

The Gates: Poems
New York: McGraw-Hill.

1980

DEATH

Muriel Rukeyser died in New York in 1980.

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