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John wheelwright biography poet
John Brooks Wheelwright
American architect
John Brooks Wheelwright (sometimes Wheelright) (September 9, 1897 – September 13, 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 TrotskyistSocialist Workers Party in the United States. He was bisexual.[1] He died after being struck by an automobile at the intersection of Beacon St.
and Massachusetts Avenue in the early morning hours of September 13, 1940. His Selected Poems was published posthumously a few months later, with an introduction by his friend R.P. Blackmur.[2]
Wheelwright was the son of Boston architect Edmund M.
Wheelwright.[3] He was descended from the 17th-century clergyman John Wheelwright on his father's side and the 18th-century Massachusetts governor John Brooks on his mother's side. He studied at Harvard University but left without a degree in 1920.[4] He t