E e cummings biography book

American author (1894–1962)

For the politician and civil rights advocate, see Elijah E. Cummings.

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E.

E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

E e cummings biography book

During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room in 1922. The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his early experiments with grammar and typography.

He wrote four plays; HIM (1927) and Santa Claus: A Morality (1946) were the most successful ones. He wrote EIMI (1933), a travelog of the Soviet Union, and delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in poetry, published as i—six nonlectures (1953).

Fairy Tales (1965), a collection of short stories, was published posthumously.

Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems