Stanley Burnshaw
Stanley Burnshaw was born in New York City, New York, United States on June 20th, 1906 and is the Poet. At the age of 99, Stanley Burnshaw biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Stanley Burnshaw (June 20, 1906 – September 16, 2005) was an American poet best known for his ontology. The Seamless Web (1970) was a website that published stories about Stanley Burnshaw (June 20, 1906 – September 16, 2005).
His style included writing political poems, prose, editorials, etc.
Burnshaw is best known for his contributions to social justice outside of political poetry.
Family life
Stanley Burnshaw was born and raised in New York City by his parents, who immigrated from England. There are few detailed accounts of his childhood, but Burnshaw wrote two poems in his later years describing this time period of his life. The first poem, "My Friend, My Father," was about his father's childhood from the viewpoint of his father, and the second about his mother, "House in St. Petersburg," was about her mother. Susan Copen Oken, a Burnshaw widow, married Burnshaw. Burnshaw's daughter, Valeri Razavi, was born in 1969, and the grandparents were able to one grandson later.
Education
Burnshaw began his secondary education at the University of Pittsburgh, advanced to Columbia University, and then returned to the University of Pittsburgh to complete his bachelor's degree. Burnshaw went to Europe in 1927 to attend the University of Poitiers and then Sorbonne University, after saving up money. In 1928, then returned to New York City to attend graduate school at New York University and earned his Master's degree.
Career
Burnshaw made a career plan to become a teacher and a writer. To save money and get started in his future career, Burnshaw started working at the Blaw-Knox Steel Corporation in Blawnox, Pennsylvania as an assistant copywriter. After he returned from Europe, Burnshaw began working at the Hecht Company in New York City as an advertising manager. Resigning from the Hecht Company in 1932, his next job was doing multiple duties (co-editor, drama critic, and occasional book reviewer) for The New Masses, a weekly editorial in New York City. In the 1930s Burnshaw got more interested in publishing. He first became the editor-in-chief for the Cordon Company in New York, then president and editor-in-chief of the Dryden Press (a firm he started) which merged with Holt, Rinehart and Winston in the late 1950s. Until 1968 Burnshaw was a consultant to the house and vice-president of Dryden Press. He published many prose, poems, books, editorials, and remained active in many other aspects of his career until his death in September 2005.