Muriel Rukeyser
1913 - 1980
General Information
Bio
(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.
New Haven: Yale University Press.
Foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet.
1939
LITWORK
A Turning Wind
Collection of poetry.
Collection of poetry.
1944
LITWORK
Beast in View
Collection of poetry.
Collection of poetry.
1948
LITWORK
The Green Wave
Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
Collection of poetry with Octavio Paz.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
Collection of poetry with Octavio Paz.
1949
LITWORK
Elegies
1958
LITWORK
Body of Waking
New York: Harper.
New York: Harper.
1962
LITWORK
Waterlily Fire: Poems, 1935-1962
New York: Macmillan.
Collection of poetry.
New York: Macmillan.
Collection of poetry.
1968
LITWORK
The Speed of Darkness
New York: Random House.
New York: Random House.
1973
LITWORK
Breaking Open
1976
LITWORK
The Gates: Poems
New York: McGraw-Hill.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
1980
DEATH
Muriel Rukeyser died in New York in 1980.
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