JAMES LAUGHLIN
Name: James Laughlin
Born: 30 October 1914
Died: 12 November 1997
James Laughlin (30 October 1914-12 November 1997) was an American poet and
literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishers.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory
Rea Laughlin. Laughlin's family had made its fortune with the Jones and Laughlin
Steel Company, founded a generation earlier by his grandfather, and this wealth
would partially fund Laughlin's future endeavors in publishing. As Laughlin once
wrote, "none of this would have been possible without the industry of my
ancestors, the canny Irishmen who immigrated in 1824 from County Down to
Pittsburgh, where they built up what became the fourth largest steel company in
the country. I bless them with every breath."
Laughlin's works include:
In Another Country (1979)
Selected Poems (1986)
The House of Light (1986)
Tabellae (1986)
The Owl of Minerva (1987)
Collemata and Pound As Wuz (1988)
Collected Poems of James Laughlin (1992)
Angelica (1992)
The Man in the Wall (1993)
The Country Road (1995)
The Secret Room (1997)
A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (1998)
Byways: A Memoir (2005)
The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin (2006)
Name: James Laughlin
Born: 30 October 1914
Died: 12 November 1997
James Laughlin (30 October 1914-12 November 1997) was an American poet and
literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishers.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory
Rea Laughlin. Laughlin's family had made its fortune with the Jones and Laughlin
Steel Company, founded a generation earlier by his grandfather, and this wealth
would partially fund Laughlin's future endeavors in publishing. As Laughlin once
wrote, "none of this would have been possible without the industry of my
ancestors, the canny Irishmen who immigrated in 1824 from County Down to
Pittsburgh, where they built up what became the fourth largest steel company in
the country. I bless them with every breath."
Laughlin's works include:
In Another Country (1979)
Selected Poems (1986)
The House of Light (1986)
Tabellae (1986)
The Owl of Minerva (1987)
Collemata and Pound As Wuz (1988)
Collected Poems of James Laughlin (1992)
Angelica (1992)
The Man in the Wall (1993)
The Country Road (1995)
The Secret Room (1997)
A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (1998)
Byways: A Memoir (2005)
The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin (2006)