Word: kozol
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...Under the tutelage of professors Archibald MacLeish, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and Harry T. Levin ’33, a literary critic, Kozol planned a life in creative writing...
...After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard, Kozol attended Magdalen College at Oxford, but left early for Paris. There, MacLeish introduced the young writer to the more seasoned expatriates Richard Wright and William Styron, among others...
...From MacLeish, Levin, and the Paris group, Kozol said he developed an “admiration for people who were not only good at what they did, but also good at conveying it to younger people.” They “predisposed” Kozol to teaching, “but the specific event that precipitated my decision to teach” was the June 1964 murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi...
...When he heard the news, Kozol was back in Cambridge, where he planned to enroll in graduate school at Harvard to study Elizabethan literature...
...Disturbed by the events, he approached the pastor of a black church in Roxbury to ask how he could help. The pastor, said Kozol, told him what his community most needed was dedicated teachers...