Educated at Oak Park and River Forest High School, the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin, Fearing then moved to New York City where he eventually began a career as a poet. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker. In 1929, he published Angel Arms, his first collection of poetry. Fearing also produced several novels, the best of which was his crime novel, The Big Clock (1946). His poetry was said by himself to be in the Walt Whitman tradition. His many works include Poems (1935), Dead Reckoning: A Book of Poetry (1938), The Hospital (1939), Collected Poems of Kenneth Nearing (1940), Dagger of the Mind (1941), Clark Gifford's Body (1942), Afternoon of a Pawnbroker and Other Poems (1943), Stranger at Coney Island and Other Poems (1948), Loneliest Girl in the World (1951), The Generous Heart (1954), New and Selected Poems (1956) and The Crozart Story (1960). |
