Warren, James E., Jr.; Wright, Whittier A. (illus) Served 3 years in the Army Air Force

Book Description: Copy #29. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. INSCRIBED by the illustrator on the front endpaper.

James Edward Warren, Jr., poet, author, and educator, was born December 11, 1908, in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Emory University (A.B. 1930, M.A.T. 1941), and taught in several of the Atlanta Public School System high schools (1933-1959) as well as the Lovett School (1959-1974), where he became Head of the English Department. He also taught part-time at Georgia Institute of Technology and worked as an editor. Warren is the author of numerous poems and articles, more than a dozen volumes of poetry, four textbooks, many translations of Latin and Greek classics; and has sponsored literary magazines in the schools in which he taught. He died on April 21, 1997 in Woodstock, Georgia.