Delmore Schwartz

Stephen Hahn (William Paterson University)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 8 Dec 1913
Died 1966
Activity 1938-1966

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

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Delmore Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York, December 8, 1913, to first generation parents of Romanian Jewish descent. In 1921, the family moved to Washington Heights, at the northern end of Manhattan, but by 1923 the father, Harry Schwartz, had left wife Rose and children Delmore and Kenneth, and moved to Chicago. The family businesses from the immigrant grandparents' generation had been real estate development and insurance, but this became, with Harry Schwartz, primarily a series of ill-defined speculative schemes. Despite the middle-class milieu of the Schwartz home, family life was never stable prior to the father's departure. In 1931-32, Delmore attended the University of Wisconsin, but he returned to New York City and …

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Citation: Hahn, Stephen. "Delmore Schwartz". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 July 2001 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3971, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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