Major Clarence

American poet, painter and novelist. In his early twenties he started his own literary magazine, Coercion Review, which featured poets and writers such as Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. After a stint in the Air Force, two marriages, children, and two divorces, he left the Midwest and moved to New York in December, 1966. His first novel, All Night Visitors (1969), was followed by his first collection of poems, Swallow the Lake (1970), and his first solo exhibition of paintings in the early 1970s. He was the first editor of American Book Review. Major is professor emeritus of 20th-Century American Literature at the University of California at Davis. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less