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unusual facts about Irving Fiske


Irving Fiske

Fiske, a 1928 graduate of Cornell University, had worked for the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the 1930s, had written for H. L. Mencken’s American Mercury, had corresponded with George Bernard Shaw, had written an article now considered a classic, "Bernard Shaw’s Debt to William Blake", and had translated Shakespeare's Hamlet into Modern English.



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