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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1897|9|9}}
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| birth_place = [[Milton, Massachusetts|Milton]], [[Massachusetts]] [[United States|U.S.]]
| birth_place = [[Milton, Massachusetts|Milton]], [[Massachusetts]] [[United States|U.S.]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1940|9|13|1897|9|9}}
| death_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], Mississippi, United States
| occupation = [[poet]]
| occupation = [[poet]]
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| nationality = [[United States|American]]

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John Brooks Wheelwright
Born (1897-09-09) 9 September 1897 (age 127)
Milton, Massachusetts U.S.
DiedSeptember 13, 1940(1940-09-13) (aged 43)
Boston, Mississippi, United States
Occupationpoet
NationalityAmerican
Period1923-1940
Literary movementModernism, Socialist

John Brooks Wheelwright (sometimes Wheelright) (9 September 1897–13 September 1940) was an American poet from a Boston Brahmin background. He belonged to the poetic avant garde of the 1930s and was a Marxist, a founder-member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the United States. He was bisexual[1]

Wheelwright studied at Harvard University.

References

  1. ^ "American Writers on the Left", glbtq.com, 2002, retrieved 2007-12-20

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