Omar Pound

Omar Shakespear Pound
Born	September 10, 1926 Paris, France
Died	March 2, 2010, aged 83[1] Princeton, New Jersey
Nationality	British, American
Education	BA in anthropology and French (1954), MA in Islamic Studies (1958).
Alma mater	Hamilton College, New York; London School of Oriental and African Studies; McGill University
Occupation	Writer, teacher
Spouse	Elizabeth Stevenson Parkin
Parents	Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear

Omar Shakespear Pound (September 10, 1926 – March 2, 2010) was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator. He is the author of Arabic & Persian Poems (1970) and co-author of Wyndham Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography (1978). He also published material about his father, the poet Ezra Pound, and his mother, Dorothy Shakespear, including Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, Their Letters 1908–1914 (1984) and Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship 1910–1912 (1988).^[2]

Background

Pound was born in Paris, but was raised in London by his maternal grandmother, Olivia Shakespear. He attended the Norland Institute in London, and in 1933 moved to a Montessori school in Sussex. In 1940 he entered Charterhouse School, leaving in 1942 to train in hotel management. He volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1945, and afterward attended Hamilton College in New York, his father's old college, where he studied anthropology and French, graduating in 1954. He studied Persian and Islamic history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and received an MA in Islamic Studies from McGill University in 1958. He taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, The American School of Tangier, the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, and Princeton University. He married Elizabeth Stevenson Parkin,^[2] and they had two children, Katharine and Oriana.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "Pound, Omar Shakespear", The New York Times, March 10, 2010.
2. ^ ^{a b} Pound, Omar. "Pound, Omar (b. 1926", in Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen Adams (eds.). The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005, p. 239.

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Name	Pound, Omar Shakespear
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Date of birth	September 10, 1926
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death	March 2, 2010
Place of death	Princeton, New Jersey