Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1926, but his family moved to Massachusetts shortly after his birth. A talented musician, O'Hara trained in classical piano during his adolescence before joining the Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended Harvard College (his roommate was Edward Gorey, of Addams Family fame); although he started as a music major, he soon became enamored of writing poetry (supported by his new friend, John Ashbery, who would also become a well-known poet) and switched to English. O'Hara was one of the founders of the Poets Theatre in Cambridge. He graduated Harvard in 1950, got a master's degree in English at the University of Michigan, and...
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