Weldon Kees, American author, poet, painter, and pianist (died 1955)

Weldon Kees

American writer, artist, and musician

Harry Weldon Kees was an American poet, librarian, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Despite his brief career, Kees is considered an important mid-twentieth-century poet of the Beat generation, and peer of John…