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The poem became a popular clipping passed between people, and the author's credit was often dropped, leading to inquiries as to the author in newspapers as early as 1938. [ 6 ] Ann Landers printed the poem in her column on October 5, 1983, incorrectly attributing it to an anonymous man who died as a result of struggles with drug abuse.
In 2005, at the age of 90, Franklin published and lectured [14] on his new autobiography, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. In 2006, Mirror to America received the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Book Award, which is given annually to honor authors "whose writing, in illuminating past or present ...
John F. Deane (born 1943 on Achill Island) is an Irish poet and novelist. [1] He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. [2] [3]
John Frederick Freeman (29 January 1880 – 23 September 1929) was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full-time. He was born in London , and started as an office boy aged 13.
John Martin Finlay (January 24, 1941 – February 17, 1991) was an American poet and writer of essays, reviews, fiction, letters, and diaries.. Finlay is best known for his posthumously published poetry collection, Mind and Blood: The Collected Poems of John Finlay.
Most of the poems take the form of ghosts examining themselves and their deeds in front of a mirror. Similar titles were popular in the Middle Ages and there were numerous other works which presented themselves as a speculum (Latin for "mirror") chief among them the Speculum Maius by Vincent de Beauvais, who lived during the time.
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
John Frederick Matheus (September 10, 1887 – February 19, 1983) was an American writer and a scholar who was active during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. [1] He is well known for his short stories, and he also wrote essays, plays and poetry.