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Maurice Reginald (Rex) Hunter (5 January 1889 – 18 February 1960) was a New Zealand poet, playwright and fiction writer. He is best known for his work as a journalist in America (New York, Chicago) as well as for his marriage to the South Carolina poet Gamel Woolsey in the 1920s and his friendships with writers Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, John Cowper Powys, E. E. Cummings and Llewelyn Powys.〔Kenneth Hopkins, ''Passages in the Life of Reginald Hunter'', Warren House Press: Norfolk, UK, 1985. Reproduced in (ICarbS 1985, Volume V, Number 1 ), Southern Illinois University Carbondale Morris Library 〕 == Life == Hunter was born at Southbrook, Canterbury, near Christchurch. His father, Thomas Hunter, was a local storekeeper and a native of Scotland, and Rex was his fourth child. Rex had two brothers: Justice Hunter and Eric Hunter, and one sister. Rex was educated locally in Christchurch and Canterbury district (Waltham School and Darfield High School), then became a pupil teacher at Waltham School and went on to study and pass Civil Service examinations. He was appointed cadet for Department of Tourist and Health Resorts on 22 May 1908.〔''New Zealand Gazette'', 28 May 1908, p. 1537〕 He left New Zealand for Sydney, in 1909 (after a transfer) working briefly as Shipping Reporter for the Sydney Daily Telegraph and worked in other parts of Australia. He returned to New Zealand in 1912 near when his father died (in March 1914) and worked for several years at The Press (Christchurch) and in Auckland. Around 1914, his wanderlust took him next to America via Australia, Fiji and Hawaii. In America he roved from San Francisco to Denver, Kansas to Chicago and then on to New York. He also spent time in St Louis, Missouri, as a scenario writer for motion pictures.〔''Timaru Herald'', 19 February 1960〕 In Chicago around 1918, he worked on the Daily News with Carl Sandburg and Ben Hecht. He also had plays produced: ''Stuff O' Dreams'' at the Kansas City Music Hall, 19 April 1918 and ''The Romany Road'' and ''The Wild Goose'' at Chicago's Central Music Hall, 15 February 1919 and 26 April 1919 respectively. After arriving in New York in the early 1920s, he met and married (on 2 April 1923) the poet and writer Gamel Woolsey and became part of the Greenwich Village literary circle that included John Cowper Powys and Llewellyn Powys. He also did some acting in these years with Woolsey at Woodstock. In 1927, he and Woolsey visited England. Woolsey then separated from him after four years of marriage (her posthumous 1987 novel ''One Way of Love'' is said to be a semi-autobiographical account of their marriage〔Hopkins〕), although they never divorced. He continued to live in Greenwich Village and became a lead writer for the New York Sun. He wrote articles for this paper on his wanderings in Britain from John O'Groats to Land's End and the boulevards of Paris.〔''Timaru Herald'', 19 February 1960〕 He kept working as a freelance journalist until 1949 when he returned to Christchurch, New Zealand, where his brothers lived. At some point in New York, he became a neighbour of the poet E. E. Cummings. Returning to New Zealand, his brother found him work at the Timaru Herald. Hunter was living in Timaru at the time of his death in Dunedin in February 1960. After cremation, his ashes were interred at Christchurch. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rex Hunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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