Robert Hayden
Sign in to saveAlso known as Asa Bundy Sheffey, Robert Earl Hayden
American writer and academic (1913–1980)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 4 August 1913
- Died
- 25 February 1980
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
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- 470
- Total plays
- 1,358
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Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. Life Born as Asa Bundy Sheffey, Robert Hayden grew up in Detroit, Michigan. Born to a struggling couple, Ruth and Asa Sheffey (they separated soon after his birth), Hayden was taken in by a foster family, Sue Ellen Westerfield and William Hayden, and grew up in a Detroit ghetto nicknamed "Paradise Valley." The Haydens' perpetually contentious marriage <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Hayde
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- Ann Arbor
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Wayne State University
- Employer
- Fisk University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Baháʼí Faith
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- name in native language
- Robert Hayden
- date of birth
- 1913-08-04
- date of death
- 1980-02-25
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- Commons category
- Robert Hayden
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- birth name
- Asa Bundy Sheffey
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