Samuel Greenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSamuel Greenberg
American writer
Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1893
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 16-Aug-1917
Profession: poet
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Samuel Greenberg
- For the New York politician, see Samuel L.
- Greenberg.Samuel Bernard Greenberg (December 13, 1893 – August 16, 1917) was an Austrian-American Jewish poet and artist.
- Greenberg grew up in poverty on the Lower East Side of New York City and spent the last years of his life in and out of charity hospitals.
- He died of tuberculosis in the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island.
- What little mainstream critical attention he has received has arisen through debate over the poet Hart Crane's re-writing of several Greenberg poems, most notably "Conduct", into "Emblems of Conduct" by Crane.
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