Andrew Glaze was an American poet, playwright and novelist.
20 Facts About Andrew Glaze
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Andrew Glaze lived and wrote in New York City for 31 years.
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Andrew Glaze grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, with a younger sister and brother, and attended Ramsay High School.
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Andrew Glaze has been called both Andrew L Glaze III, and Junior.
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Andrew Glaze's grandfather, Andrew Lewis Glaze, was a Confederate doctor during the Civil War.
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Immediately after graduating from Harvard in 1942, Andrew Glaze enlisted in the United States Air Force to serve during World War II.
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Andrew Glaze died on February 7,2016, in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Andrew Glaze began to have success with his writing and between May 1950, and February 1956, Poetry magazine published seven of his poems.
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Andrew Glaze had a short fiction piece appear in the 1953 4th Edition of New World Writing, and a poem in the 9th Edition in 1956.
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In 1957, Andrew Glaze moved with wife and daughter to Greenwich Village in New York City.
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Andrew Glaze wrote a poem entitled As I walk mornings down Bleecker Street, and another poem, Village Parade, which appeared in his first book.
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Andrew Glaze had testified against a deputy sheriff in defence of two black men.
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In 1962, Andrew Glaze married his second wife, dancer and actress, Adriana Keathley.
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Andrew Glaze later danced in the original cast of Michael Bennett's Broadway show Ballroom.
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The couple settled into an apartment on the West side of Manhattan, and for many years Andrew Glaze bicycled across town to the British Tourist Authority office on 5th Avenue and 54th Street, where he worked as a Press Officer, writing travel stories.
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Andrew Glaze referred to them as "Two Odes, after the fashion of Milton's L'Allego and Il Penseroso".
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In 1978, Andrew Glaze did a reading and interview on WNYC radio, and stated that before The New Yorker published Fantasy Street, they sent a fact checker out to follow the entire route of the poem and check every location mentioned in it for accuracy.
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Andrew Glaze's poems are refreshing in the intellectual health they show.
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In 1974, with the assistance of producer Joseph Papp, Andrew Glaze had a play, Kleinhoff Demonstrates tonight, produced at the Cricket Theatre in Minneapolis.
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On June 8,2015, Andrew Glaze was an inaugural inductee into the Alabama Writer's Hall of Fame, along with Helen Keller, Harper Lee, and nine other writers with roots in Alabama.