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| First Name |
Leonard
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| Last Name |
Bacon
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| Birthday |
26th May, 1887
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| Birthplace |
Solvay, NY, USA
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| Died |
1st January, 1954
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| Place of Death |
Peace Dale, Rhode Island, U.S.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Poet
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Leonard Bacon was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. The great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon, he graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until his retirement in 1923. In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym 'Autholycus'. He and his family lived in Florence, Italy from 1927 to 1932. He won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1942.
