Charles Olson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Charles John Olson is a major figure in American poetry of the 1950’s and 1960’s. He grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, and spent his summers in the seaport of Gloucester, Massachusetts. At Wesleyan University he earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees, and at Harvard University he began but never completed a Ph.D. program. In the 1940’s he worked for the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, and for the Office of War Information and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., but after that he turned from politics to literature. His first book, Call Me Ishmael: A...
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