Millen Brand
American writer and poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Millen Brand was an American writer and poet. His novels, The Outward Room and Savage Sleep , addressed mental health institutions and were bestsellers in their day. Personal life Brand was born on January 19, 1906, in Jersey City, New Jersey, into a working-class family. His father was an electrician working freelance and his mother was a nurse. His maternal grandfather was a carpenter and his paternal grandfather was a farmer. Brand's father bought a farm in 1906 and Millen enjoyed doing chores on the farm and stopped going to the local school. He and his parents moved back to the city after a few years because farming was not financially viable. Brand was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent on his mother’s side. He resided in Greenwich Village and on a small farm in Bally, Pennsylvania. He married twice; first to Pauline Leader, a poet noted for her memoir about growing up deaf, And No Birds Sing, and then to Helen Mendelssohn . He had three children by his first marriage and one by his second.
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