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Popular As | John Cournos |
Occupation | Poet |
Age | years old |
Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
Born | March 6, 1881 (Russia) |
Birthday | March 6 |
Town/City | Russia |
Nationality | Russia |
John Cournos’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
John Cournos was born in the Year of the Snake. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Snake are seductive, gregarious, introverted, generous, charming, good with money, analytical, insecure, jealous, slightly dangerous, smart, they rely on gut feelings, are hard-working and intelligent. Compatible with Rooster or Ox.
Imagist poet and author whose works include The Devil is an English Gentleman and A Boy Named John. He wrote much of his work under the pseudonym of John Corky.
He was born in Russia to Jewish parents, and he and his family immigrated to the United States in 1891.
When writing for The Philadelphia Record, Cournos adopted the additional pseudonym of "Gorky."
He married fellow author Helen Kestner.
He had an extra-marital affair with author Dorothy L. Sayers. A fictionalized version of the relationship appears in Sayers' novel Strong Poison and in Cournos' work The Devil Is an English Gentleman.