Lincoln Fitzell was an American poet.

Life

He was born in Iowa

Iowa

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. He graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

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, and University of California, Berkley.
He was a member of the Poetry Guild, and was a friend of Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...

  He was a friend of John Conley. He corresponded with Alan Swallow.
He was a friend of Harvey Ferguson.
He worked as a longshoreman, and married Edith Nichols, in 1928. They had a son.

His work appeared in the Nation, Poetry Saturday Review, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New Mexico Quarterly,

His papers are at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, and UCLA.