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Occupation
  
American poet

Name
  
Lincoln Fitzell


Role
  
Poet

Books
  
Selected Poems

Born
  
April 13, 1903
San Francisco, California

Died
  
September 5, 1958, Berkeley, California, United States

Education
  
Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley

Lincoln H. Fitzell, Jr. (April 13, 1903 – September 5, 1958) was an American poet.

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Life

He was born on April 13, 1903 in San Francisco, California to Edith G. Weck and Lincoln H. Fitzell, Sr. He graduated from Harvard University, and University of California, Berkeley. He was a member of the Poetry Guild, and was a friend of Robert Penn Warren He was a friend of John Conley. He corresponded with Alan Swallow. He was a friend of Harvey Ferguson. He worked as a longshoreman, and married Edith Nichols, in 1928. They had a son.

His work appeared in the Nation, Poetry Saturday Review, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New Mexico Quarterly,

Legacy

His papers are at the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA.

Awards

  • 1937/1938 Shelley Memorial Award
  • Poetry

  • Poems. 1932. 
  • In Plato's Garden 1929–1939. A. Swallow. 1940. 
  • Morning rise, and other poems. Swallow and Critchlow. 1942. 
  • Selected poems. A. Swallow. 1955. 
  • Stories

  • County lines: stories and songs of the West. Swallow Press. 1947. 
  • The Sword and the Dragon. s.n. 1951. 
  • Anthology

  • Alfred Kreymborg, ed. (1935). An anthology of American poetry: lyric America 1630–1930. Tudor publishing co. 
  • Helen Hoyt, ed. (1932). California poets: an anthology of 244 contemporaries. H. Harrison. 
  • References

    Lincoln Fitzell Wikipedia