Poet Kevin Young

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Kevin Young

Living place: Nebraska

Birthday: 8-11-1970 (54 years old)

Population of US 1970: 205,052,174

Global rank: #48842

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Who is Poet Kevin Young?
A winner of the Quill Prize and the Patterson Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Book Award, he wrote several popular poetry collections, including Most of the Way Home; Jelly Roll; and to repel ghosts.
He held professorship of writing at Indiana University, the University of Georgia and Emory University.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He started writing in his early teens and went on to earn a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Brown University. Also, he's a Stanford University Stegner literary guy.

Family life info

The son of a scientist mother and a doctor father, he spent his early years in several states, including Nebraska and Kansas.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Kevin Young?
Many of his poems, including the 2005 best American poetry selection "Black Cat Blues" have influenced the work of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Young's other major literary influences include the confessional poet John Berryman and the primitivist and neo-expressionist visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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When was Poet Kevin Young born?
Kevin Young birthday 8-11-1970 (at the age of 54).
Where is Poet Kevin Young's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Kevin Young was born in Nebraska, . is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Kevin Young's global rank is 48842 and whose rank is 187 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1970 is about 205,052,174 persons.
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Events in 1970 and 8-11

Events in US in the birth year of Kevin Young

  • Four students at Kent State University in Ohio slain by National Guardsmen at demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia (May 4).
  • Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution (June 24).

Birthday Kevin Young (8-11) in history

  • Day 8-11 year 1889: Montana became the 41st state.
  • Day 8-11 year 1892: Former president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House.
  • Day 8-11 year 1923: Adolf Hitler attempted, and failed, to seize control of the German government in the Beer Hall Putsch.
  • Day 8-11 year 1960: John F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States.
  • Day 8-11 year 1966: Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.
  • Day 8-11 year 1994: After a 40-year Democrat domination, the Republican Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a Senate majority.
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