Robert Nichols (15 July 1919-October 14, 2010) was an American poet, playwright, novelist, and architect.[1]
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Born Robert Brayton Nichols in Worcester, Massachusetts[1] 15 July 1919, Nichols served as an officer in the United States Navy in World War II, and attended and earned two degrees from Harvard University, the first a bachelors and the second in landscape architecture.[1] His work in landscape architecture includes a redesign of Washington Square Park.[1] Nichols' poetry includes the volumes Red Shift (1977),[citation needed] and Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (1962, number 15 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series).[citation needed] He also wrote the short story collection, In the Air (1991),[citation needed] and novels, including From the Steam Room (1993),[citation needed] and a four-part series of novellas set in the utopia Nghsi-Altai.[2] Nichols was a co-founder of the Judson Poets Theatre,[citation needed] and participated in the Theater for the New City and the Bread and Puppet Theater.[citation needed]
Nichols' first marriage was to the Village Voice editor, Mary Perot Nichols, which ended in divorce in 1969.[1][3] Nichols married author Grace Paley in 1972, and they remained married until her death in 2007.[citation needed]
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