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E. E. Cummings

American author (1894-1962) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 67

Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room (1922).

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1962Died3 September 19621957Bollingen PrizeAward1950Fellowship of the Academy of American PoetsAward1945Shelley Memorial AwardAward1933Guggenheim FellowshipAward1894Born14 October 1894

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Awards

Bollingen Prize1957
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets1950
Shelley Memorial Award1945
Guggenheim Fellowship1933

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The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his early experiments with grammar and typography. He wrote four plays, the most successful of which were HIM (1927) and Santa Claus: A Morality (1946). He wrote EIMI (1933), a travelog of the Soviet Union, and delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in poetry, published as i - six nonlectures (1953). Fairy Tales (1965), a collection of short stories, was published posthumously.

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United States
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Deceased
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Lived 1894 to 1962 · aged 67

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