Thomas Parkinson
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1920 – 1992
Who was Thomas Parkinson?
Thomas F. Parkinson Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, was a poet in his own right; an expert on the poetry of W. B. Yeats; and one of the first academic authorities to write about the Beat poets and novelists of San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s. A deeply thoughtful man of great integrity, he was a quiet political activist for much of his life, and survived a murder attempt in 1961 by a deranged former student who sought to "get someone who was associated with Communism." Though Parkinson survived being shot in the face, the teaching assistant who was with him at the time was killed. Thomas Parkinson died of an apparent heart attack in 1992 after a long illness.
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- Born
- Feb 24, 1920
- Also known as
- Thomas Francis Parkinson
- Thomas. Parkinson
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Linguistics
( - 1949) - Literature
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Berkeley
( - 1992/01/15)
- Berkeley
- Died
- Jan 15, 1992
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on July 23, 2013
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