Heinrich Hauer Bellamann (April 28, 1882 – June 16, 1945) was an American novelist and poet, best known as the author of the novel Kings Row.
Bellaman was born in Fulton, Missouri. He was a serious student of music and studied both in the U.S. and abroad. From 1907 until 1932, when he began to pursue writing full-time, Bellamann held administrative and teaching positions at several educational institutions including Juilliard and Vassar. He died ...
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Heinrich Hauer Bellamann (April 28, 1882 – June 16, 1945) was an American novelist and poet, best known as the author of the novel Kings Row.
Bellaman was born in Fulton, Missouri. He was a serious student of music and studied both in the U.S. and abroad. From 1907 until 1932, when he began to pursue writing full-time, Bellamann held administrative and teaching positions at several educational institutions including Juilliard and Vassar. He died in New York.
During the years that Bellamann taught, he wrote poetry and published three volumes:
Although his poetry is today even less well known than his fiction, Bellamann was recognized by David Perkins in his 1976 History of Modern Poetry, in which he ranks Bellamann with the serious minor poets who "adopted the mode" of the Imagists (p. 347).
In 1942 Publishers Weekly inaccurately reported that Bellamann was an author "new to the book trade" prior to the publication of Kings Row in 1940 (143:244). However, in addition to the three...
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