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(1926-2001) Writer. Spencer Holst ran away from Toledo at 16 to become a poet; after serving in the army, he returned and lived in Westbeth Artists Housing, in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Spencer Holst

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

1926

BIRTH

Spencer Holst was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926.

1960

RESIDENCE

Holst had a home in Staten Island, New York in the 1960s.

1970

RESIDENCE

Holst lived in Westbeth Artists Housing, in Manhattan, New York.

1970

LITWORK

On Demons


Poetry chapbook, written with his wife, Beate Wheeler.

1971

LITWORK

The Language of Cats and Other Stories


Collection of short stories.

1976

LITWORK

Spencer Holst Stories


Collection of stories.

1980

LITWORK

Something to Read to Someone & Sixteen Drawings


With Beate Wheeler.

1983

LITWORK

Prose for Dancing

1993

LITWORK

The Zebra Storyteller

2000

LITWORK

Brilliant Silence

2001

DEATH

Spencer Holst died at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in New York, New York in 2001.

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