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Kenneth Fearing


Born
in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States
July 28, 1902

Died
June 26, 1961

Genre
Poetry, Fiction


Kenneth Fearing (July 28, 1902 – June 26, 1961) was an American poet, novelist, and founding editor of Partisan Review. Literary critic Macha Rosenthal called him "the chief poet of the American Depression."

Fearing was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Harry Lester Fearing, a successful Chicago attorney, and Olive Flexner Fearing. His parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was raised mainly by his aunt, Eva Fearing Scholl. He went to school at Oak Park and River Forest High School, and was editor of the student paper, as was his predecessor Ernest Hemingway. After studying at the University of Illinois in Urbana and the University of Wisconsin, Fearing moved to New York City where he began a career as a poet and was active in ...more

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“She was blond as hell, wearing a lot of black.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock
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“The awfulness of Monday mornings is the world's greatest common denominator. To the millionaire and the coolie it is the same, because there can be nothing worse.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock
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“These moments move fast, if they are going to move at all, and with no superfluous nonsense. If they don't move, they die.”
― Kenneth Fearing
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