I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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Birth: | 6th November, 1903 |
Death: | 25th June, 2004 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Poet |
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Rakosi was born in Berlin and lived there and in Hungary until 1910, when he moved to the United States to live with his father and stepmother. His father was a jeweler and watchmaker in Chicago and later in Gary, Indiana. The family lived in semi-poverty but contrived to send him to the University of Chicago and then to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. During his time studying at the university level, he started writing poetry.
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