{"value"=>"<p>Writer of plays, poems, novels, biographies and essays. Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1951-59, San Francisco State College (and Director of the Poetry Center), 1959-69, Brown University, 1969-85. TRC productions: author of <span class=\"title\">Lovecraft's Follies</span>, 1970, and <span class=\"title\">Cathedral of Ice</span>, 1970, coauthor of the adaptation of <span class=\"title\">Galileo</span>, 1984, dramaturg for <span class=\"title\">Billy Budd</span>, 1969 and <span class=\"title\">The Tempest</span>, 1982. A founder of Wastepaper Theatre and Rhode Island Playwright's Theatre, both in Providence.</p>"}