Cornel Adam Lengyel

Background

Lengyel, Cornel Adam was born on January 1, 1915 in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. Son of Elmer Alexander and Mary Elizabeth (Bismarck) Lengyel.

Education

Doctor of Letters (honorary), World Academy of Arts and Culture, Taiwan, 1991.

Career

Editor, supervisor, Federal Research Project, San Francisco, 1938-1941; music critic, The Coast, San Francisco, 1937-1941; shipwright, personnel officer, Kaiser Shipyard, Richmond, California, 1942-1944; manager, Forty-Nine Theatre, Georgetown, California, 1946-1950; editor, W.H. Freeman Company, San Francisco, 1952-1954; founder, executive editor, Dragon's Teeth Press, Georgetown, since 1969. Visiting professor, lecturer English literature California State University, 1962-1963. Writer-in-residence Hamline U., St. Paul, 1968-1969.

Guest lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969. Translation from Hungarian. Editorial consultant Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Educational director ILGWU.

Achievements

• Cornel Adam Lengyel has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Case of Benedict Arnold (New poetic drama)

    (A dramatic take on the case of Benedict Arnold)

  • The Atom Clock

    (Format Paperback Subject Literary Collections)

  • Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys "Know Your America Program" (Sticker Book)

    (8.25" x 5.5"; 63 numbered pages; 7 color stickers to be i...)

  • American testament;: The story of a promised land,
  • The atom clock: Play
  • The Atom Clock
  • Four days in July: The story behind the Declaration of Independence
  • Four Dozen Songs
  • Four dozen songs, (Living poets library. Penultimate series, no. 12)
  • Four dozen songs, (Living poets series, no. 2)
  • The Creative Self; Aspects of Man's Quest for Self-Knowledge and the Springs of Creativity

Membership

Served with United States Merchant Marine, 1944-1945. Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Poetry Society of America, Poetry Society England, Authors Guild.

Connections

Married Teresa Delaney Murphy, July 10, 1933. Children: Jerome Benedict, Paul Joel, Michael Sebastian, Cornelia (Mistress Charles Burke).

Father:

Elmer Alexander Lengyel

Mother:

Mary Elizabeth (Bismarck) Lengyel

Spouse:

Teresa Delaney Murphy

child:

Jerome Benedict Lengyel

child:

Michael Sebastian Lengyel

child:

Cornelia Lengyel (Mistress Charles Burke)

child:

Paul Joel Lengyel