Maurice Sagoff
Maurice Sagoff | |
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Born | 1909/1910 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Died | Acton, Massachusetts | March 18, 1998
Occupation | Journalist, poet |
Nationality | American |
Genre | light verse |
Notable works | ShrinkLits: 70 of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size |
Maurice Sagoff (1909 or 1910 – March 18, 1998) was an American poet best remembered for , his bestselling collection of light verse.
Sagoff was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After graduating from Boston College he worked for one decade as a research librarian at the Boston Public Library and for two decades at Fairchild Publications as a regional editor. After his retirement in 1954 he wrote , a collection of literary classics condensed into terse light poetry. The book, published by Doubleday in 1970, became a New York Times bestseller. He subsequently published his poetry in a number of publications, including The New York Times and Mademoiselle. Though ShrinkLits was his only published book, shortly before his death in 1998 he had completed a new manuscript for a collection of clerihews.
References[]
- Thomas, Jr., Robert McG. (March 29, 1998). "Maurice Sagoff, 88, a Master Of Terse Verses on Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
- 20th-century births
- 1998 deaths
- Poets from Massachusetts
- Boston College people
- Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 20th-century American poets
- Boston College alumni
- American poet stubs