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🎂 Kenneth Burke - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday
Currently, Kenneth Burke is 127 years, 6 months and 17 days old. Kenneth Burke will celebrate 128rd birthday on a Monday 5th of May 2025. Below we countdown to Kenneth Burke upcoming birthday.
Popular As |
Kenneth Burke |
Occupation |
Novelist |
Age |
years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
Born |
May 5, 1897 (Pennsylvania) |
Birthday |
May 5 |
Town/City |
Pennsylvania |
Nationality |
Pennsylvania |
🌙 Zodiac
Kenneth Burke’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs
Kenneth Burke was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
About
Remembered for his highly influential works of literary criticism, this 20th-century writer and literary theorist is perhaps best known for his 1966 work Language as Symbolic Action. His other important works include Dramatism and Development (1972); The Rhetoric of Hitler's "Battle" (1939); and A Grammar of Motives (1945).
Before Fame
Before devoting his life to literary theory, he briefly studied at Ohio University and Columbia University, ultimately dropping out of both institutions.
Trivia
He was the grandfather of the popular American folk singer Harry Chapin (known best for the 1974 hit song "Cat's in the Cradle").
Family Life
His first marriage -- to Lily Mary Batterham -- resulted in a musician daughter named Jeanne Elspeth Chapin Hart; an author daughter named France Burke; and an anthropologist and activist daughter named Eleanor Leacock. His second marriage -- to his late wife's sister, Elizabeth Batterham -- produced sons named Anthony and Michael.
Associated With
He was a friend and high school classmate of fellow American writer and critic Malcolm Cowley.
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