Mary Curran (actor)
Mary Curran may refer to: * Mary Doyle Curran (1917–1981), American poet, novelist, and teacher * Mary Florence Curran (1885–1976), American artist, gallerist, and social reform worker {{hndis, Curran, Mary ...
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Mary Doyle Curran
Mary Doyle Curran (May 10, 1917 – 1981) was an American poet, novelist, and teacher. Her work, described by poet Anne Halley as being "haunted" by issues of gender, ethnicity, and class, included many poems and a novel dealing with Irish-American life. Biography Curran was born Mary Doyle in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and educated at Massachusetts State College. She married George Curran in 1940; they had no children and later divorced. Curran earned her PhD in English at the University of Iowa in 1946, and taught at Wellesley College and Queens College before directing the program in Irish Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. While at Queens, her students included poet Lloyd Schwartz, who reported after her death that she included contemporary poets such as Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, and Richard Wilbur in her survey of American literature even though "she wasn't supposed to." Another student at Queens was civil rights activist Andrew Goodman; ...
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