Ned O'Gorman (1) (1929–2014)

Ned O'Gorman was born Edward Charles O'Gorman in Manhattan, New York on September 26, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree from St. Michael's College in Vermont and a master's degree from Columbia University. He wrote several collections of poetry including The Night of the Hammer, which won a toon meer Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1958. In 1966, he started a storefront school in Harlem to bring literature, Latin and love to disadvantaged children. The school, the Children's Storefront, has a student body of about 170 children, from prekindergarten through eighth grade. He wrote several other books including Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on Revolution, The Children Are Dying, and The Other Side of Loneliness. He died of pancreatic cancer on March 7, 2014 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder