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Conrad Aiken Potter was born on August 5, 1889, in Savannah, Georgia, to a New York doctor father and a Unitarian minister mother, but his father killed his mother and himself when Aiken was 11.<ref>http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/conrad-aiken-1889-1973</ref>  This was greatly psychologically disturbing to him, and one of his chief influences along with his Harvard philosophy professor, [[George Santayana]].<ref name="poet">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/conrad-aiken</ref>  He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1912, along with [[T.S. Eliot]].<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/conrad-potter-aiken/biography/</ref>

Conrad Aiken Potter was born on August 5, 1889, in Savannah, Georgia, to a New York doctor father and a Unitarian minister mother, but his father killed his mother and himself when Aiken was 11.<ref>http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/conrad-aiken-1889-1973</ref>  This was greatly psychologically disturbing to him, and one of his chief influences along with his Harvard philosophy professor, [[George Santayana]].<ref name="poet">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/conrad-aiken</ref>  He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1912, along with [[T.S. Eliot]].<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/conrad-potter-aiken/biography/</ref>

He contributed to ''Dial'' magazine, where he met [[Ezra Pound]], and published his first volume, ''Earth Poetry'', in 1914, establishing him as a poet, which he cited as an excuse to avoid the World War One draft.  He continued to work as a poet before World War Two, marrying three times, crossing the Atlantic many times, publishing essays in ''Scepticisms'' (1919), and winning the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for his ''Selected Poems''.<ref>http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/conrad-aiken-unitarian-prodigy-poet/</ref>  He was greatly influences in this time by [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Carl Jung]], and many of his novels, such as ''The Great Circle'' (1933), involve characters in need of psychoanalysis.<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/conrad-aiken</ref>  He was likely better known for his short stories than his poems in the style of music.<ref>"Aiken, Conrad."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  While much of them, especially "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," include characters that are parallel to Aiken's psyche, he only published a complete replica of himself in his autobiography, ''UShant''.<ref name="poet"></ref>  He died August 17, 1973, in Savannah, Georgia.

He contributed to ''Dial'' magazine, where he met [[Ezra Pound]], and published his first volume, ''Earth Poetry'', in 1914, establishing him as a poet, which he cited as an excuse to avoid the World War One draft.  He continued to work as a poet before World War Two, marrying three times, crossing the Atlantic many times, publishing essays in ''Scepticisms'' (1919), and winning the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for his ''Selected Poems''.<ref>http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/conrad-aiken-unitarian-prodigy-poet/</ref>  He was greatly influences in this time by [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Carl Jung]], and many of his novels, such as ''The Great Circle'' (1933), involve characters in need of psychoanalysis.<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/conrad-aiken</ref>  He was likely better known for his short stories than his poems in the style of music.<ref>"Aiken, Conrad."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  While much of them, especially "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," include characters that are parallel to Aiken's psyche, he only published a complete replica of himself in his autobiography, ''UShant''.<ref name="poet" />  He died August 17, 1973, in Savannah, Georgia.

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