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Conrad Aiken American Poet Short Story Writer Novelist

Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) was an American writer whose works, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Selected Poems" (1929), explore psychology and are influenced by figures like Freud and Poe.

Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist whose work reflects interests in psychology and authors like Freud and Poe. He won the Pulitzer Prize for "Selected Poems" (1929).

Front Conrad Aiken
Back 1889-1973
American poet, short story writer and novelist
contemporary of Eliot and Walter Lippmann
both his fiction and his poetry reflect his interest in psychology and his reading of Freud William James and the French symbolists as well as Allan poe
selected poems 1929, for which he won the Pulitzer prize
the collected novels 1964
Ushant, an autobiographical piece , appeared in 1952

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