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(1916-1998) Poet, biographer. John Brinnin was the Director of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association Poetry Center (92nd Street Y) in Manhattan, New York from 1949 to 1956.

Full Name

John Malcolm Brinnin

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Brinnin taught courses at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

1916

BIRTH

John Malcolm Brinnin was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on September 13, 1916.

1942

LITWORK

The Garden is Political


Poetry.

1942

LITWORK

The Lincoln Lyrics


Poetry.

1945

LITWORK

No Arch, No Triumph


Poetry.

1949

OTHER

Brinnin was Director of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Poetry Center in Manhattan, New York, from 1949 to 1956.

1951

LITWORK

The Sorrows of Cold Stone


Poetry.

1955

LITWORK

Dylan Thomas in America
Little Brown & Co.

Nonfiction.

1963

LITWORK

William Carlos Williams


Nonfiction.

1981

LITWORK

Sextet: T.S. Eliot, Truman Capote and Others


Nonfiction.

1988

LITWORK

Beau Voyage: Life Aboard the Last Great Ships


Travelogue.

1992

LITWORK

Travel and the Sense of Wonder


Travelogue.

1998

DEATH

John Brinnin died in Key West, Florida on June 25, 1998.

2000

LITWORK

The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic


Travelogue.

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