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Date of Birth
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1935
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Place of Birth
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Connecticut
(New England, United States of America, Contiguous United States)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Profession
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Poet, Novelist, Illustrator, Writer
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Russell Edson is an American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator, and the son of the cartoonist-screenwriter Gus Edson.
He studied art early in life and attended the Art Students League as a teenager. He began publishing poetry in the 1960s. His honors as a poet include a Guggenheim fellowship and several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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