Charles Olson
He went to college at Wesleyan University, where he got his B. A. degree in 1932. He got his M. A.degree there in 1933. For that degree Olson wrote about Herman Melville. He got a Guggenheim fellowship to help him go on studying Melville. During most of World War II, he worked for the Office of War Information as assistant chief of the Foreign Language Division. He worked for the Democratic Party in 1944.