James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing...He was born in Pittsburgh, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory Rea Laughlin. Laughlin's family had made its fortune with the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, founded three generations earlier by his great grandfather, James H. Laughlin, and this wealth would partially fund Laughlin's future endeavors in publishing. Within just a few years of its founding, New Directions Publishing had become an important publisher of modernist literature. Initially, it emphasized contemporary American writers with whom Laughlin had personal connections, such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. A born cosmopolitan, though, Laughlin also sought out cutting-edge European and Latin American authors and introduced their work to the American market. 

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James Laughlin Reading "Easter in Pittsburgh" and Other Poems (Fortnightly Review)

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Russell Edson and James Laughlin reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 29, 1984 (Library of Congress)

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