About Robert Horan
Lived 1922 – 1981 (aged 59). Robert Horan was an American poet.
Robert Horan (August 9, 1922 – September 19, 1981) was an American poet.
Life He lived with Pauline Kael in Berkeley, California. He was part of the "Activist" group. He was lovers with Gian Carlo Menotti, and he stayed with Menotti and Menotti's long-term lover, Samuel Barber, at "The Capricorn", at Mount Kisco, New York.
His work appeared in Harper's, Poetry, and Kenyon Review.
Awards 1948 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
Works A Beginning (New Haven, Conn., 1948 )
Criticism "In Defense of Dylan Thomas", Kenyon Review, 1945
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American writer (1922–1981)
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Robert Horan was born on 9 August 1922.
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Robert Horan died on 19 September 1981.
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