Poet Lorenzo Thomas

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Lorenzo Thomas

Living place: Panama

Birthday: 31-8-1944 (80 years old)

Global rank: #70135

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Who is Poet Lorenzo Thomas?
Panamanian-American poet and author whose best known works include Chances are Few and Dancing on Main Street. He also made significant contributions to the field of African-American literary scholarship.
He taught English at the University of Houston for more than two decades.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He attended Queens College, New York and attended the Umbra Workshop, which was an important literary training ground for important people in the Black movement.

Family life info

He was born in Panama, and his family immigrated to New York when he was four years old.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Lorenzo Thomas?
In a learned piece of unusual measure: Modern Afrocentric and 20th-century American poetry, Thomas explores the work of poet Amiri Baraka and other African-American authors.

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When was Poet Lorenzo Thomas born?
Lorenzo Thomas birthday 31-8-1944 (at the age of 80).
Where is Poet Lorenzo Thomas's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Lorenzo Thomas was born in . is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Lorenzo Thomas's global rank is 70135 and whose rank is 513 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1944 and 31-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Lorenzo Thomas

  • Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). Background: Normandy campaign
  • Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
  • Dumbarton Oaks Conference—U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations.
  • Battle of the Bulge begins as Germans penetrate Allied front in Belgium (Dec. 16 to Jan. 1945).
  • Anne Frank and her family betrayed and sent to concentration camps. She will die in 1945.

Birthday Lorenzo Thomas (31-8) in history

  • Day 31-8 year 1887: Thomas Edison received a patent for his "Kinetoscope," and moving pictures were born.
  • Day 31-8 year 1888: Mary Ann Nicholls, considered to be Jack the Ripper's first victim, was found murdered in London.
  • Day 31-8 year 1962: Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Great Britain.
  • Day 31-8 year 1980: Poland's Solidarity labor movement had its beginnings when an agreement ending a 17-day strike was signed in Gdansk.
  • Day 31-8 year 1994: Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltic states.
  • Day 31-8 year 1997: Princess Diana and her companion Dodi al-Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris.
  • Day 31-8 year 2012: Armenia severed diplomatic relations with Hungary, after the pardoning of Ramil Safarov. In 2004, Safarov was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier.
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