Stanley Kunitz (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

The suicide of Solomon Z. Kunitz, a dress manufacturer, before the birth of his third child, Stanley, haunted Stanley Kunitz throughout his life. Stanley's mother, Yetta Helen Jasspon, was remarried to Mark Dine when Stanley was eight; Dine died six years later. Yetta tried to expunge the memory of her first husband from her household, igniting Stanley's curiosity about his father. Once when the young boy found a picture of Solomon, Yetta snatched it and slapped him for having it.

In 1922, Kunitz, valedictorian of his class at Worcester Classical High School,...

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