Occupation Journalist, poet Role Poet Name Maurice Sagoff | Genre light verse Nationality American | |
Notable works ShrinkLits: 70 of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size Died March 18, 1998, Acton, Massachusetts, United States Books Shrinklits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size | ||
Maurice sagoff s beowulf shrinklit by jessmin gaerlan
Maurice Sagoff (1909 or 1910 – March 18, 1998) was an American poet best remembered for ShrinkLits, his bestselling collection of light verse.
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- Maurice sagoff s beowulf shrinklit by jessmin gaerlan
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Sagoff was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After graduating from Boston College he worked for one decade as a research librarian at the Boston Public Library and for two decades at Fairchild Publications as a regional editor. After his retirement in 1954 he wrote ShrinkLits: 70 of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size, a collection of literary classics condensed into terse light poetry. The book, published by Doubleday in 1970, became a New York Times bestseller. He subsequently published his poetry in a number of publications, including The New York Times and Mademoiselle. Though ShrinkLits was his only published book, shortly before his death in 1998 he had completed a new manuscript for a collection of clerihews.