John Berryman (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
John Berryman was born John Allyn Smith, Jr., on October 25, 1914, in McAlester, Oklahoma, the elder son of John Allyn Smith, Sr., and Martha Shaver Little Smith. The Smiths would have one other child, Robert Jefferson Smith, born September 1, 1919. Between 1914 and 1926, the Smith family moved about every two years to various Oklahoma farming communities, the elder Smith holding a series of banking positions. In 1924, a scandal involving the senior Smith's brother's theft of funds forced Berryman's father to resign from the First State Bank in Anadarko, Oklahoma. By...
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