Visiting this site will provide you with a lot of information about the famous author. You'll find extensive resources on Fearing's life and career (by Robert M. Ryley), an excellent essay on his poetry (by Walter Kalaidjian), a preface to Fearing's 1956 New and Selected Poems (by the author himself), and a good bibliography of the Oak Park native's works.

BIOGRAPHY
Kenneth Fearing (b. 1902) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. As a baby, Fearing was abducted by his mother, who gave him up on the same day when she was tracked down by his father. The ensuing divorce gave both parents equal custody, but Fearing spent most of his time with his father and aunt. He enrolled at the University of Illinois, but transferred to the University of Wisconsin in his junior year. Despite his work at the school newspaper and the publication of several stories, Fearing was denied graduation because of a failing grade in analytic geometry. Fearing moved to New York and began writing pulp fiction to support the more literary writing he did in his spare time. In 1929 he published his first collection of poetry, the oppressively ironic Angel Arms. The book was criticized for its pessimism, but his next collection, Poems (1935), won him critical acclaim and a Guggenheim fellowship. Fearing turned his attention to fiction, and published the experimental novel The Hospital in 1937. Though he continued to publish novels and poetry, Fearing's bleak vision hampered his commercial success, and in the late 1950s he began writing pulp fiction again. On June 21, 1961 Fearing was admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital with a malignant melanoma of left chest and pleural cavity and died five days later.