| Delmore Schwartz  Born: 8-Dec-1913
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 11-Jul-1966
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Summer Knowledge Schwartz was the model for Saul Bellow's character, Humboldt von Fleisher, in Humboldt's Gift (1975). Frequently dated teenage girls. Father: Harry Schwartz
Mother: Rose
Brother: Kenneth
University: University of Wisconsin (attended 1931-32)
University: BA Philosophy, New York University (1935)
University: Harvard University (graduate work, 1935-37)
Professor: Syracuse University (1962-)
The New Republic Poetry Editor, Film Critic, 1955-57
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1960
Romanian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1939, prose and poetry)
Genesis, Book I (1943, poetry)
The World Is a Wedding (1948, short stories)
Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems (1950, poetry)
Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems (1959, poetry)
Successful Love, and Other Stories (1961, short stories)
New and Selected Poems, 1938–1958 (1959, poetry)
Wrote plays:
Shenandoah (1941)
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