Grandin Conover was born in Washington, D.C., on March 28, 1937. He receivd a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College and attended the University of Connecticut as a National Defense Fellow. He worked as city-desk clerk for The Washington Post, taught at Glaydin School in Leesburg, Virginia (later becoming a member of the Board of Directors), was literary editor of The Nation, and an editor at Time, Inc., where he supervised the editing, rewriting, and researching of a series of books on World War II. In 1966 he was awarded a Rockefeller grant to study the independent American cinema. He had two plays produced: As The Hawk Sees It in Chicago (1962) and The Party on Greenwich Avenue, produced by Richard Barr and Edward Albee at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York (197). His death, by suicide, occurred on Waverly Place in New York, June 26, 1969. ******************************************** 'Come Up With Me, American Love' -- Neruda The slaves drive the iron and the steel Through the streets, through the iron fields. I ride a condor who devours North America, my children, my flowers. Dope kills and so to bed. Dope kills the world instead. Regal, naked, I rise and wander High as carnival the empty slums, my condor Hovers          I mount the Western imagination like bronko Amigo And fly fly fly away. [1969]