Dachine Rainer | |
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| Born | Sylvia Newman 13 January 1921 |
| Died | 19 August 2000 (aged 79) |
Resting place | Highgate Cemetery |
| Partner | Holley Cantine |
| Children | Thérèse |
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| Language | English |
Dachine Rainer (born Sylvia Newman; 13 January 1921 – 19 August 2000) was an American-born English writer, poet, and anarchist.
Rainer was born in New York and grew up in the Tribeca neighborhood. Her father was a tailor. She was young when the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had taken place, which had influenced her ideologies. Rainer had already become a pacifist and anarchist by the time she was a teenager. In 1938, she had begun writing poetry and prose and won a scholarship to study English literature at Hunter College. In 1944, her first published work, a review, was in the magazine Politics.
In the 1950s Rainer lived with the writer Holley Cantine with whom she had a daughter Thérèse.
Rainer's papers from the years 1948-1971, largely consisting of her correspondence with the photographer Marion Morehouse and her partner E. E. Cummings, are held at the Lilly Library.
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