Delmore Schwartz Born: 8-Dec-1913 Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY Died: 11-Jul-1966 Location of death: New York City Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Cedar Park Cemetery, Emerson, NJ
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Summer Knowledge Schwartz was the model for Saul Bellow's character, Humboldt von Fleisher, in Humboldt's Gift (1975). Frequently dated teenage girls. Father: Harry Schwartz Mother: Rose Brother: Kenneth
University: University of Wisconsin (attended 1931-32) University: BA Philosophy, New York University (1935) University: Harvard University (graduate work, 1935-37) Professor: Syracuse University (1962-)
The New Republic Poetry Editor, Film Critic (1955-57) Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1960 Romanian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1938, collection) Genesis (1943, poetry) The World Is a Wedding (1948, short stories) Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems (1950, poetry) Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems, 1938-1958 (1959, poetry) Successful Love and Other Stories (1961, short stories)
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