E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings was an American poet, painter, playwright, and writer born Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge in 1894. He was educated at Harvard University and was a member of the Republican Party. His literary work is associated with modernist literature and surrealism, and he was influenced by Gertrude Stein and Amy Lowell.

Cummings received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Bollingen Prize. He was a member of the Academy of American Poets and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His notable works include *And*, *Chanson innocent*, *Kyodai na heya*, *Is 5*, and *The enormous room*.

He practiced Unitarianism and spoke American English. Cummings died in 1962 and was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery. His works are held in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.