Harry Kemp
Who is Harry Kemp
Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15, 1883 – August 5, 1960) was an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known as (and promoted himself as) the "Vagabond Poet", the "Villon of America", the "Hobo Poet", or the "Tramp Poet", and was a well-known popular literary figure of his era, the "hero of adolescent Americans."
Life and work
Kemp was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the only son of a candymaker. He was raised by his grandmother, in a house by the local train yards. At the age of seventeen he left home to become a common seaman; after returning to the United States he traveled across the country by riding the rails as a hobo. In his early twenties he attended Mount Hermon School, from which he was expelled around December 1906, and later the Uni...
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after harry paterson is summoned to london following his father's murder, he finds out that the late lord elliot paterson had discovered hidden information dated all the way back to 1936...
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- Sugarduckyyaz: "the poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream" -- harry kemp
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