Background
Ivan Arguelles was born on January 24, 1939 in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. He is the son of Enrique and Ethel Pearl (Meyer) Arguelles. Ivan is a twin brother of Joseph Anthony (Jose) Arguelles, who died on March 23, 2011.
Ivan Arguelles was born on January 24, 1939 in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. He is the son of Enrique and Ethel Pearl (Meyer) Arguelles. Ivan is a twin brother of Joseph Anthony (Jose) Arguelles, who died on March 23, 2011.
Ivan attended University of Minnesota for one year on a scholarship. In 1961 he finished University of Chicago and got Bachelor of Arts degree in classics. In the early 1960s Arguelles finished graduate courses in classics at New York University. In 1968 he received Master of Legal Studies degree at Vanderbilt University.
Ivan began his career as a dishwasher at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota in 1957. In 1961 Arguelles worked as a clerk at Midwest Interlibrary Loan Center in Chicago. The same year Ivan also served as a bindery clerk at Columbia University Library in New York. Two years later, in 1963, he was a clerk at Kroch & Brentano’s Bookstore in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Later the writer was appointed a head of Personal Shopping Services.
Arguelles held the post of a night manager at Brentano’s Bookstore in New York in 1967. The same year he acted as an English instructor in an aeronautical school in Macerata, Italy.
Ivan started to serve as a clerk at Elder’s bookstore in Nashville, Tennessee, United States in 1967 and held the position till 1968, when he began to work as a cataloguer at New York Public Library. Since 1978 Ivan served as a head of serial cataloging division at Berkeley Library. Also in 1978 he held a post of a guest lecturer at Ramapo College in New Jersey.
Since 1970s he worked as a private tutor in Spanish, Italian, and French in New York and held the post of a teacher of beginning Spanish at Brooklyn College (adult education division).
Ivan is a contributor to several writings, such as Doctor Generosity Poets, Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters, American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century and others.
Ivan married Claire Birnbaum in 1958. Their marriage didn't exist too long and two years later, in 1960, the couple divorced. On October 27, 1962 he married Marilla Calhoun Elder, a fabric art designer and teacher, and founder of Consensus (a brain trauma rehabilitation center). The couple has two children – Alexander and Max.