Hart Crane

Hart Crane (1899–1932) was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, and grew up in Cleveland, the son of the candy maker who invented Life Savers. He left for New York at seventeen, worked in advertising and in his father's businesses between poems, and published White Buildings (1926) and his long poem about America, The Bridge (1930). He died at 32, lost from a ship in the Gulf of Mexico.