Barry Spacks
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barry Bernard Spacks , was a prize-winning poet, novelist and first poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Spacks received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1952. He served in the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea at the end of the Korean War and was honorably discharged in 1954. He later used some of his experiences in Korea for his first novel, Orphans, published in 1972. In 1956 he received his M.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington, then studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, as a Fulbright scholar from 1956 to 1957. He taught writing and literature at MIT from 1960 to 1981, then taught in the English Department and the College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara for 32 years. He was poet laureate of the City of Santa Barbara from 2005 to 2007.
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