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Dr. Lita Romola Rothbard Hornick (1927–2000) was an American literary researcher, editor, publisher, patron of poets, and art collector,[1] best known for the beatnik magazine Kulchur that she turned into the Kulchur Foundation.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Lita Rothbard was born in 1927 in Newark, New Jersey.[3] In 1948 she obtained a BA from Barnard College. In 1949, she graduated with an MA and in 1958 with a Ph.D. Columbia University, writing her thesis on Dorothy Richardson and her dissertation on Dylan Thomas.[3] After marrying Morton Hornick, she took over Kulchur starting with its third issue (1961),[4][5] running it as a magazine until 1965. Subsequently, Hornick operated the Kulchur Press that she then turned into the Kulchur Foundation.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Cohen, Patricia (26 October 2012). "Finding New Angles to Showcase Familiar Subjects". New York Times.
- ↑ Diggory, Terence (22 April 2015). Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Infobase Learning. ISBN 9781438140667 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 "Kulchur Foundation records, 1936-1994 bulk 1969-1989". Columbia University.
- ↑ Jones, Hettie (23 September 2016). Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822374152 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Baraka, Amiri (April 2012). The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781613745892.
- ↑ "Dorothy Richardson: A Calendar of the Letters" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-07.
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