“They appear to remember that, after all, literature should be drawn from life, not from literature.”
About Conrad Aiken
5 August 1889–17 August 1973
The story of Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) reads like something from a Gothic novel, yet it is the true foundation upon which one of twentieth-century America's most psychologically complex poets built his life and work. Born into comfortable circumstances in Savannah, Georgia, Aiken seemed…