Archibald Macleish
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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry.
At Yale University and Harvard University, MacLeish studied English.
He was enlisted in and saw combat during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s.
He contributed to Henry Luce's magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938 while returning to the United States.
MacLeish was the Librarian of Congress for five years, a position he accepted at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's behest.
He was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University from 1949 to 1962.
For his services, he was given three Pulitzer Prizes.
Early years
MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois. Andrew MacLeish, a Scottish-born boy, was a founder of the Chicago department store Carson Pirie Scott. Martha (née Hillard), a college professor who served as president of Rockford College, served as a president. He grew up on a lake Michigan farm. From 1907 to 1911, he attended the Hotchkiss School. MacLeish graduated from Yale University, where he majored in English, and was nominated for the Skull and Bones society for his college education. He later joined Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
World War I, in which he started as an ambulance driver and then as an artillery officer, interrupted his studies. He was wounded in the Second Battle of the Marne. Kenneth MacLeish's brother was killed in battle during the war. He graduated from law school in 1919 and served as an editor for The New Republic for a semester. He spent three years in Boston with Choate, Hall & Stewart. In his poem Memorial Rain, which was published in 1926, MacLeish expressed his disillusion with war.
Personal life
He married Ada Hitchcock, a singer, in 1916. MacLeish had three children: Kenneth, Mary Hillard, and William, the author of a memoir about his father, Uphill with Archie (2001).