Kenneth Fearing

Kenneth Fearing

writer

Kenneth Fearing was born on Jul 28, 1902 in USA. Kenneth Fearing's big-screen debut came with The Big Clock directed by John Farrow in 1948. Kenneth Fearing is known for No Way Out directed by Roger Donaldson, Kevin Costner stars as Tom Farrell and Gene Hackman as David Brice. The upcoming new movie Kenneth Fearing plays is Fearing in Sarajevo which will be released on Aug 15, 2019.

American poet Kenneth Fearing was born in Oak Park, IL, in 1902. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1924. Moving to Chicago, he held jobs as a salesman and a millhand, among other things, and eventually went to work for a Chicago newspaper as a reporter. He moved to New York City, and began earning a living as a freelance writer. He wrote many stories and novels, but mostly under pseudonyms because his first love was poetry and he only wrote prose for the money.Politically a progressive, Fearing's poems tended to be more on the gritty, rough-edged side rather than the dreamy, romantic verses commonly associated with poetry; a biographer once noted that Fearing's poems "present a corrosive, weirdly lighted picture of contemporary American life", and a critic once said that his work "reads like nightmares induced by New York newspapers and modern civilization . . . not cheering to read, but it haunts one".

  • Birthday

    Jul 28, 1902
  • Place of Birth

    Oak Park, Illinois, USA

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