Background
Ghiselin, Brewster was born on June 13, 1903 in Webster Groves, Missouri, United States. Son of Horace and Eleanor (Weeks) Ghiselin.
author English language educator emeritus
Ghiselin, Brewster was born on June 13, 1903 in Webster Groves, Missouri, United States. Son of Horace and Eleanor (Weeks) Ghiselin.
AB, University of California at Los Angeles, 1927. Master of Arts, University California-Berkeley, 1928. Student, University California-Berkeley, 1933.
Student, Oxford University, England, 1929. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Utah, 1994.
At the age of sixteen he moved to California, where he lived until 1934. He was also responsible for creating the Utah Writer"s Conference in 1947, where he remained its director until 1966. He published Against the Circle in 1946.
The poem "Rattlesnake" from this book of poems is mentioned in Richard Hugo"s Triggering Town, a book of lectures and essays on the writing of poetry.
In 1970, he published the book Country of the Minotaur, a compilation of many of his poems. In 1952, Ghiselin edited The Creative Process, a symposium of the writings of some thirty-eight men and women, including Katherine Anne Porter, Albert Einstein, Vincent van Gogh, Doctorate. H. Lawrence, et cetera, on the creative process.
(Rare collectible vintage paperback book concerning the cr...)
(Book by Ghiselin, Brewster)
(The creative process. explained in their own words by thi...)
(Author's first book. Some poems previously published.)
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Board advisors Silver Mountain Foundation. Member Modern Language Association, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (Charles Redd award), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Olive F. Franks, June 7, 1929. Children: Jon Brewster, Michael Tenant.