John Brooks Wheelwright

John Brooks Wheelwright

John Brooks Wheelwright (sometimes Wheelright) (1897–13 September, 1940) was an American poet from a Boston Brahmin background. He belonged to the poetic "avant garde" of the 1930s and was a Marxist, a founder-member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the United States. He was "bisexual"citation |title=American Writers on the Left |date=2002 |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/am_mawriters_left.html |periodical=glbtq.com |accessdate=2007-12-20 ]

Wheelwright studied at Harvard University.

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* [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wheelwright/bio.htm Biography]

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