Robert Nichols (author)

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Robert Nichols (15 July 1919 – October 14, 2010) was an American poet, playwright, novelist, and architect.[1]

Biography[edit]

Born Robert Brayton Nichols in Worcester, Massachusetts[1] 15 July 1919, Nichols served as an officer in the United States Navy in World War II, and attended and earned two degrees from Harvard University, the first a bachelors and the second in landscape architecture.[1] His work in landscape architecture includes a redesign of Washington Square Park.[1] Nichols' poetry includes the volumes Red Shift (1977),[2] and Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (1962, number 15 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series).[citation needed] He also wrote the short story collection, In the Air (1991),[citation needed] and novels, including From the Steam Room (1993),[citation needed] and a four-part series of novellas set in the utopia Nghsi-Altai.[2] Nichols was a co-founder of the Judson Poets Theatre,[citation needed] and participated in the Theater for the New City and the Bread and Puppet Theater.[citation needed]

Nichols' first marriage was to the Village Voice editor, Mary Perot Nichols, which ended in divorce in 1969.[1][3] Nichols married author Grace Paley in 1972, and they remained married until her death in 2007.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Amateau, Albert (October 21, 2010). "Robert Nichols, 91, led Wash. Sq. '69 renovation". The Villager. 80 (21). Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Jaeckle, Daniel P. "The Green Anarchist Utopia of Robert Nichols's Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai." Utopian Studies 24, no. 2 (2013): 264-82. Accessed February 27, 2021
  3. ^ Stout, David (May 22, 1996). "Mary Perot Nichols, 69, Who Led WNYC, Dies". The New York Times. p. D21. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
  4. ^ Woo, Elaine (August 24, 2007). "Grace Paley, 84; writer's Bronx-tinged stories focused on working-class lives". Los Angeles Times. p. 98. Retrieved December 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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