Haniel Clark Long (March 9, 1888 – October 17, 1956) was an American poet, novelist, publisher and academic. He is best known for his novella, ''Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca'' (1936), a fictionalized account of the true story of a Spanish

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in 16th century North America.

Life and career

Born to

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Samuel P. and May Clark in what is now Myanmar (then known as Rangoon, Burma), Haniel Long was taken to

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at the age of three with his family. Educated at

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and Harvard, Long started a career as a

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for the ''New York Globe'' but returned to Pittsburgh to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now

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). He was promoted to head the English Department in 1920, the same year his first book was published, ''Poems'', a collection of his poetry. In 1926 he published a collection of

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called ''Notes for a New Mythology''. Long moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1929 with his wife Alice and his son Anton for health reasons, and spent the rest of his life there. He helped founding a publishing organization called Writers' Editions, which concentrated on works by New Mexican authors. The organization published Long's poetry collection, ''Atlantides'', in 1933 and his ''Pittsburgh Memoranda'' in 1935. In 1936 ''Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca'' appeared, considered Long's best statement of his beliefs on man's place in the world. Long continued to publish other works over the next two decades: ''Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage'' (1938), ''Malinche (Dona Marina)'' (1939), ''Pinon Country'' (1941), ''Children, Students and a Few Adults'' (1942), ''French Soldier Home from Being a War Prisoner'' (1942), ''The Grist Mill'' (1945), and ''A Letter to St. Augustine'' (1950). He also wrote for the ''New Mexico Sentinel'', editing its writers' page. Long finished his final novel, ''Spring Returns'', in 1956 shortly before his death. It was published posthumously, as were two other works: ''If He Can Make Her So'' (1968) and ''My Seasons'' (1977). The main repository for Long's manuscripts is the Special Collections of the Libraries of the

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, with other material at Carnegie Mellon and

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References

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'', Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1963, volume 6, pp. 244–61

External links

Selected poems by Haniel Long at poemhunter.com
* ttp://www.writerseditions.johnpcampiglio.info/long.htmlAssorted works of Haniel Long at the John P. Campiglio website {{DEFAULTSORT:Long, Haniel 1888 births 1956 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American poets American book publishers (people) American male journalists American male novelists American male poets Harvard University alumni Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty Writers from Santa Fe, New Mexico 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers American expatriates