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© ie “eDocisicon"™ a literary marezine edited by KLAUS Mat » Ci San Francisco File No. 100-2106), MURINL RUKEYSER, care of Doubled-y Doran and Company, New York City, is considered one of the most important of /ncrica's younper pocts. She is the author of three books of verse end a blogreaphy of WILLARD GIBAS, the latter published in 1942. She was born December 15, 1913 in New York City. Being born in a period of beginning economic and political change followed by depression years, th. new deal ond the united fron efforts, her carly work like thet of other poets of her generation reflects a strong "left-wing" vicw point. She is the daughter of LJ REITE and HYR/ RUKEYSE She attended Fieldston High School, New York City, graduating ia 1930; attended Vassar College until 1932, end daring thet year and the next she wes on th staff of the Student Review,Left-"“ing Undergraduate Opinion. Publication. During the summersof 1931 and 1933 she studicd at Columbia University. In March of 1933 RUXEYSER drove south with tivo friends to report the Scottsboro trial, When the police disecvered thom talking with negro reporters and feund in thvir possession some "Calls" to a negro student conference at Columbia University, they wore held for Hinciting the negrocs to insurrections" but were released. ifter leaving Vassar College RUKEYSZR was for a while editor of the Hensatoric, a Mow Enclond literary journal. In the spring of 1935 she wes associate editor of the New Theatre mapézine. Heanvhilc, she had also teken a course in flying at the Roosevelt ¢viation School in order to learn the mechanics of aviation for her poems in the "Theory of Flight." Visiting England in the summer of 1936 she wis sent by "Life and Letters Todey", @ literary journal,to Spain to represent the first Peoples Olympic, organiccd by the Werkers Sports Clubs. She found hereclf a witness to the opening events in the oth sa ate the ree rcs Pr BESEY WB ER ne | geub seen ON hpaine en the Salted States, In 1940 she pave a series of five lectures on poetry and communi- extion at Vassar. The next yeor she vas busy on Lilia work translating JOIN RENOIRS People of Frence and writing "/. Place to Live" which was produced by the Philedelphia House dissociation. ssociats editor of the On Nay 1, 1943 she resinid from a & Classification Division, Office ef Var Informa t tion six months after cho hud been onfaged to plan poster campeigns because shu said rest of the ponbers hind been rejected through a policy of down with the world or through fear of ti.se issucs, From June to Decermbcr LOL] she was ot “T tees c ef