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Randolph Silliman Bourne
American writer and critic
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- Born:
- May 30, 1886, Bloomfield, N.J., U.S.
- Died:
- Dec. 22, 1918, New York, N.Y. (aged 32)
Randolph Silliman Bourne (born May 30, 1886, Bloomfield, N.J., U.S.—died Dec. 22, 1918, New York, N.Y.) was an American literary critic and essayist whose polemical articles made him a spokesman for the young radicals who came of age on the eve of World War I. Bourne was disfigured at birth by the attending physician’s forceps, and an attack of spinal tuberculosis at age four left him stunted and hunchbacked. He held a variety of odd jobs before winning a scholarship (at age 23) to Columbia University, from which he received an M.A. in 1913. That same year his Youth and ...(100 of 307 words)