Robert Nichols (15 July 1919 – October 14, 2010) was an American poet, playwright, novelist, and architect.[1]

Biography

Born Robert Brayton Nichols in Worcester, Massachusetts[1] 15 July 1919, Nichols served as an officer in the United States Navy in World War II, and attended and earned two degrees from Harvard University, the first a bachelors and the second in landscape architecture.[1] His work in landscape architecture includes a redesign of Washington Square Park.[1] Nichols' poetry includes the volumes Red Shift (1977),[2] and Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (1962, number 15 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series). He also wrote the short story collection, In the Air (1991), and novels, including From the Steam Room (1993), and a four-part series of novellas set in the utopia Nghsi-Altai.[2] Nichols was a co-founder of the Judson Poets Theatre, and participated in the Theater for the New City and the Bread and Puppet Theater.

Nichols' first marriage was to the Village Voice editor, Mary Perot Nichols, which ended in divorce in 1969.[1][3] Nichols married author Grace Paley in 1972, and they remained married until her death in 2007.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Amateau, Albert (October 21, 2010). "Robert Nichols, 91, led Wash. Sq. '69 renovation". The Villager. 80 (21). Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Jaeckle, Daniel P. "The Green Anarchist Utopia of Robert Nichols's Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai." Utopian Studies 24, no. 2 (2013): 264-82. Accessed February 27, 2021
  3. ↑ Stout, David (May 22, 1996). "Mary Perot Nichols, 69, Who Led WNYC, Dies". The New York Times. p. D21. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
  4. ↑ Woo, Elaine (August 24, 2007). "Grace Paley, 84; writer's Bronx-tinged stories focused on working-class lives". Los Angeles Times. p. 98. Retrieved December 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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