Turner Cassity (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

The career of Allen Turner Cassity has been marked by steady poetry publications since 1952 in numerous American poetry magazines and at small and large book presses. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, to Allen D. and Dorothy T. Cassity. He earned degrees from Millsaps College (1951) and Stanford University (1952), both in California, as well as from Columbia University (1956). In 1957 and 1958 Cassity was a librarian at the Jackson Municipal Library in Mississippi, and from 1959 to 1962 he worked in South Africa at the Transvaal Provincial Library in Pretoria. Providing support...

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