Dr. Lita Romola Rothbard Hornick (1927–2000) was an American literary researcher, editor, publisher, patron of poets, and art collector, [1] best known for the beatnik magazine Kulchur that she turned into the Kulchur Foundation. [2]
Life and career
Lita Rothbard was born in 1927 in Newark, New Jersey. [3] In 1948 she obtained a BA from Barnard College. In 1949, she graduated with an MA and in 1958 with a Ph.D. Columbia University, writing her thesis on Dorothy Richardson and her dissertation on Dylan Thomas. [3] After marrying Morton Hornick, she took over Kulchur starting with its third issue (1961), [4] [5] running it as a magazine until 1965. Subsequently, Hornick operated the Kulchur Press that she then turned into the Kulchur Foundation. [6]
References
- ^ Cohen, Patricia (26 October 2012). "Finding New Angles to Showcase Familiar Subjects". New York Times.
- ^ Diggory, Terence (22 April 2015). Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Infobase Learning. ISBN 9781438140667 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Kulchur Foundation records, 1936-1994 bulk 1969-1989". Columbia University.
- ^ Jones, Hettie (23 September 2016). Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822374152 – via Google Books.
- ^ Baraka, Amiri (April 2012). The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones. ISBN 9781613745892.
- ^ http://www.eltpress.org/RichCalendar/CalendarPDF/1FrontMatter.pdf [ bare URL PDF]
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