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Hart Crane (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Harold Hart Crane was born in the small town of Garrettsville in Ohio in the last year of the nineteenth century, the only child of Clarence Arthur Crane, a candy manufacturer in Cleveland who made a fortune from his invention of the Life Saver, and Grace Hart, who encouraged her son’s artistic inclinations while depending on him for advice, consolation, and support during and after the marriage failed. Anxious to please both parents, neither of whom ever relinquished their claims to their son during his short life, Crane made an effort to accept his father’s...
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