Biography
Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14th, 1894. He was born into an academic and ministerial family. His father, Edward Cummings was a professor at Harvard and later known for as a minister at Old South Church in Boston.
As a child he knew that he wanted to be a poet, and was influenced by another poet Walt Whitman. Between the ages of eight and twenty-two he wrote a poem a day. Cummings had graduated college at Harvard. In 1915, he got a bachelor of arts degree and continued to get a master's degree in 1916.
After college, Cummings volunteered to be an ambulance driver over in France. This was before the United States became involved with World War 1. Soon he became imprisoned on account of suspicion of keeping information critical to the French. Edward Cummings was held for three months and used his experience to write "The Enormous Room" in 1922 and received the Dial Award for poetry in 1925.
When the writer returned to America, he trained in the army from 1918-1919.
E. E. Cummings was married three times. His first marriage started as an affair with his friend's wife, Elaine Thayer. Together they had a child, Nancy. Soon Elaine divorced her husband and married Cummings in 1924. This marriage lasted about a year when Elaine divorced him and moved away. Then in 1927, he married Anne Barton. This too ended in divorce. His last marriage was to Marion Morehouse in 1934. E.E. Cummings had no other children than Nancy. He was only close to her when she was in her teenage years.
Throughout his life, he created many works of poetry like "Tulips and Chimneys" (1932) and "No Thanks" (1935). This poem was full of sarcasm and named fourteen publishers that had turned him down. It was also a way to thank his mother who financed publishing some of his works. Cummings had a lot of trouble finding a publisher throughout the years.
Besides his award in 1925, he gained fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 1950.
Edward Estlin Cummings died on September 3rd, 1962 in North Conway, New Hampshire at the age of 68. (Biography in Context, Gale Databases, 2o14)
E. E . Cummings was a self published poet. He was very unique in his writing due to signed his name in lowercase and not using any punctuation. He was known for his works that played with grammar, spacing, capitalization, form and punctuation. Cummings was known as an introverted poet that had a lack of style.
As a child he knew that he wanted to be a poet, and was influenced by another poet Walt Whitman. Between the ages of eight and twenty-two he wrote a poem a day. Cummings had graduated college at Harvard. In 1915, he got a bachelor of arts degree and continued to get a master's degree in 1916.
After college, Cummings volunteered to be an ambulance driver over in France. This was before the United States became involved with World War 1. Soon he became imprisoned on account of suspicion of keeping information critical to the French. Edward Cummings was held for three months and used his experience to write "The Enormous Room" in 1922 and received the Dial Award for poetry in 1925.
When the writer returned to America, he trained in the army from 1918-1919.
E. E. Cummings was married three times. His first marriage started as an affair with his friend's wife, Elaine Thayer. Together they had a child, Nancy. Soon Elaine divorced her husband and married Cummings in 1924. This marriage lasted about a year when Elaine divorced him and moved away. Then in 1927, he married Anne Barton. This too ended in divorce. His last marriage was to Marion Morehouse in 1934. E.E. Cummings had no other children than Nancy. He was only close to her when she was in her teenage years.
Throughout his life, he created many works of poetry like "Tulips and Chimneys" (1932) and "No Thanks" (1935). This poem was full of sarcasm and named fourteen publishers that had turned him down. It was also a way to thank his mother who financed publishing some of his works. Cummings had a lot of trouble finding a publisher throughout the years.
Besides his award in 1925, he gained fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 1950.
Edward Estlin Cummings died on September 3rd, 1962 in North Conway, New Hampshire at the age of 68. (Biography in Context, Gale Databases, 2o14)
E. E . Cummings was a self published poet. He was very unique in his writing due to signed his name in lowercase and not using any punctuation. He was known for his works that played with grammar, spacing, capitalization, form and punctuation. Cummings was known as an introverted poet that had a lack of style.