Career
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Writer, poet, critic. Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, lecturer in French and Spanish, 1906; Regent Street Polytechnic Institute, London, England, teacher of literature; London correspondent for Poetry (Chicago), 1912-19; associated with H. L. Mencken's Smart Set; W. B. Yeats's unofficial secretary in Sussex, England, 1913-16; unofficial literary executor for Ernest Fenollosa, London, 1914; member, editorial staff, of Mercure de France, Paris, and of British publications, Egoist and Cerebralist; founder, with Wyndham Lewis, of Vorticist magazine, BLAST!, 1914; London editor of Little Review, 1917-19; left London, 1921, and settled in Paris; Paris correspondent for Dial, 1922; moved to Rapallo, Italy, 1925; founder and editor of Exile, 1927-28; radio broadcaster in Rome until 1945; arrested by U.S. Army in 1945 and charged with treason; after being declared insane and unfit to stand trial for his life, committed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, DC, until 1958; lived in Italy, 1958-72.
