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From 1952 to 1954 he worked as an editor for the W.H. Freeman company. From 1962 to 1963, he was a visiting lecturer at
Sacramento State. In 1967, he was a MacDowell Colony resident. From 1968 to 1969, he was a writer in residence at Hamline University, St. Paul. In 1969, he was an Ossabaw Island
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In 1945, he was recipient of the Albert M. Bender
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What would a writer convey through his work? His vision of life: his response to the oddity, terror, humor, beauty, pathos, or grandeur of experience. He would renew our original sense of wonder at the mystery of things and speak in a human voice fittingly of man's mortal adventures amid the
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Foundation fellow, and also a guest lecturer at MIT. In 1969, he founded Dragon's Teeth Press and continued as executive editor, publishing works of poetry, fiction, and plays. In 1971, he was awarded the
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was published. These early successes set the stage for a life of poetry and letters. He said, much later in life, “The most improbable, impractical thing I can think of is being a poet. Yet I am still writing poetry. It's like an adolescent vice. It persists through life.”
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During World War Two he served in several capacities: with the U. S. Office of
Censorship, in the Uncommon Language Department, as chief examiner for a year; as shipwright in the Kaiser Shipyards, he helped build the world’s fastest constructed Liberty vessel, the
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Maxwell Anderson Award. Selections of the play were featured in the Saturday Review of Literature. In 1951 (and again in 1963), he was awarded a Resident Fellowship in Literature at the Huntington Hartford Foundation in Pacific Palisades.
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Cornel Adam (Lengyel) was born in
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