40°48′32.52″N 73°56′54.14″W / 40.8090333°N 73.9483722°W
Paradise Valley | |
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| Country |  United States of America |
| State |  Michigan |
| County | Wayne |
| City |  Detroit |
Paradise Valley 1920's
North of Gratiot
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looting june 1942
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Robert Hayden (1913 - 1980), born Asa Bundy Sheffey in Detroit, Michigan, was raised in a slum called Paradise Valley. Hayden's parents separated soon after his birth and he became the foster child of Sue Ellen Westerfield and William Hayden. He earned his BA (1936) from Detroit City College, later renamed Wayne State University, and between 1936 and 1938 participated in the Detroit Federal Writer's Project. His studies with W.H. Auden at the University of Michigan, where he earned his MA (1944), had a profound impact on his poetry. After graduation he accepted a professorship at Fisk University in Nashville where he would remain for over twenty years. In 1969 he returned to teach at Michigan until his death.
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