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LIFE Lynda Hull (1954–1994) received her B.A. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and her M.A. from John Hopkins University. She taught English at Indiana University, De Paul University, and in the MFA writing program at Vermont College. She worked as a poetry editor at the journal Crazyhorse. Hull had been developing an impressive career in literature when she died suddenly in a car accident in 1994 . Her first book of poetry, Ghost Money, won the Juniper prize in 1986. Her poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, the North American Review, Tendril, Telescope, MSS, The Grolier Poetry Annal (1984), The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. Lynda Hull lived in Newark, New Jersey with her parents until she was about sixteen. She fell in love with a Chinaman. With the racial tension build up and her home life ready to blow, she went astray. A middle class life wasn't for her. She did not feel that she fit into the middle class culture, says a close friend of hers. Her sense of future was not the same as that of her parents. So at sixteen years of age, at around 1965, she had the courage to pack it all up and leave home, rejecting the culture and life she had known. She and her lover left for Chinatown, Boston where she was a stranger to its culture and rhythm of life. It was a period in time where it seemed like every intelligent and sensitive person in her generation was taking drugs, looking for new possibilities to create other worlds. She too became a drug addict, a junkie, on a bus called Counter-Culture. In an anecdote related by a close friend, she once got busted and had to do community service. What she had to do in part was to recite the lyrics to the James Brown song "King Heaven", doing a dramatic version of it. Despite this judicial education, she remained a drug addict for about nine years. Eventually, she returned to school and began publishing her works and teaching. In writing her last book before she died, her Jewish heritage became an issue. When she and her mother went to Europe to find her relatives, she discovered many of them had died in the Holocaust. Her last book comes to grips with some of her feelings relating to this horror. BOOKS
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