Dr. Lita Romola Rothbard Hornick (1927–2000) was an American literary researcher, editor, publisher, patron of poets, and art collector, best known for the

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magazine ''Kulchur'' that she turned into the Kulchur Foundation.

Life and career

Lita Rothbard was born in 1927 in

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. In 1949, she graduated with an MA and in 1958 with a Ph.D.

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, writing her thesis on

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and her dissertation on

Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Under ...

. After marrying Morton Hornick, she took over ''Kulchur'' starting with its third issue (1961), running it as a magazine until 1965. Subsequently, Hornick operated the Kulchur Press that she then turned into the Kulchur Foundation.http://www.eltpress.org/RichCalendar/CalendarPDF/1FrontMatter.pdf

References

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