Gurko, Leo, 1914-2008
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Name (Latin)
Gurko, Leo, 1914-2008
Other forms of name
Gurko, Leo, 1914-
Date of birth
1914-01-04
Date of death
2008-09-30
Associated country
United States
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Authors
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Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- AncientFaces WWW site, viewed June 14, 2021(Leo Gurko; died September 30, 2008; last known residence was New York, N.Y.)
- alias: Leo Gurko; instance of: human; sex or gender: male; occupation: writer, editor, academic; award received: Newbery Honor; date of birth: +1914-01-04T00:00:00Z; place of birth: Warsaw; date of death: +2008-00-00T00:00:00Z; given name: Leo; description/label: Polish-American writer and academic; Freebase identifier: /m/0c35zbn; NKC identifier: uk20201067766; WorldCat Identities ID: lccn-n79054074/ ( (Wikidata, June 14, 2021) )
- His The six wives of Henry VIII, 1936.
Wikipedia description:
Leo Gurko (January 4, 1914 – 2008) was a Polish-American author who primarily wrote biographies between the 1940s and 1970s. Of his works, Gurko received a Newbery Honor for Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle in 1958. Gurko later published two books on Joseph Conrad and one each on Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe. Outside of literature, Gurko was a first reader for Macmillan Inc. between 1936 and 1962. During this time period, Gurko started teaching English at Hunter College in 1938 and was the college's English head from 1954 to 1960.
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