John Brooks Wheelwright
John Brooks Wheelwright | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 September 1897 Milton, Massachusetts U.S. |
| Occupation | poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1923-1940 |
| Literary movement | Modernism, 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.
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- ^ "American Writers on the Left", glbtq.com, 2002, retrieved 2007-12-20