Thomas alan orr biography

FRIDAY 10/2

Today's Reading:

"Soybeans" by Thomas Alan Orr from HAMMER IN THE FOG, published by Restoration Press (1995).

It's the birthday in 1904 Hertfordshire, England of writer GRAHAM GREENE.

BIO | Over forty years ago Thomas Orr took ceramics as a required art class during his studies in Oceanography.

BIO | Over forty years ago Thomas Orr took ceramics as a required art class during his studies in Oceanography.

Bio: Thomas Alan Orr's poems have appeared in Good Poems, edited by Garrison Keillor, and other anthologies and journals.

Follow Thomas Alan Orr and explore their bibliography from 's Thomas Alan Orr Author Page.

Bio: Thomas Alan Orr's poems have appeared in Good Poems, edited by Garrison Keillor, and other anthologies and journals.

Thomas Orr, CMG (died May ) was an Irish-born South African politician.

He began as a poet, and his first collection, Babbling April, came out when he was just 21 years old, followed four years later by his first novel, The Man Within. From 1940 to 1970 he worked as a freelance journalist, reporting for magazines and newspapers, and collecting material for his own books.

He published 57 of them in all. He's best known for his novels of the '40s and early '50s, books like The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair.

The South African poet ROY CAMPBELL was born on this day in 1901, in Durban.

In his youth he worked as a bullfighter in Spain; and fought in the Spanish Civil War in the '30s, then in WWII until he was wounded. Campbell's best-known poems come from that time, when he was also busy criticizing the British writers i