weldon kees

Harry Weldon Kees (February 24 1914- presumed dead July 18 1955) was an American poet, critic, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Beatrice, Nebraska. He was educated at Doane College, the University of Missouri and the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1935. He then wrote for Federal Writers' Project in Lincoln, Nebraska. He moved to Denver and a job as librarian in 1937, where he married. He was in New York from 1943 to 1950, heavily involved in literary journalism. From 1950 to his presumed death in 1955 he was in San Francisco, involved in many ventures but becoming a prey to mental illness. It is assumed, although his body was not found, that he jumped rom the Golden Gate Bridge, where his car was abandoned on July 18 1955.

Works

The Last Man (1943) poems
The Fall of Magicians (1947) poems
Nonverbal Communication: Notes On The Visual Perception Of Human Relations (1953) with Jurgen Ruesch
Poems 1947-1954 (1954)
Reviews and Essays, 1936-55 (1988) edited by James Reidel
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (1960 and later editions) edited by Donald Justice
The Ceremony and Other Stories (1984) selected by Dana Gioia
Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation (1986) letters, edited by Robert E. Knoll
Fall Quarter (1990) novel

Weldon Kees: A Critical Introduction (1985) essays about Kees and a bibliography by Bob Niemi
Weldon Kees (Twayne's United States Author Series, 484) (1985) by William T. Ross
The Bibliography of Weldon Kees (1997) by Robert Niemi and Daniel Gillane
The Life and Art of Weldon Kees(2003) by James Reidel
Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury (2003) by Daniel A. Siedell

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