Dachine Rainer (born Sylvia Newman; 13 January 1921 – 19 August 2000) was an American-born English writer, poet, and anarchist.

Life and career

Rainer was born in New York and grew up in the Tribeca neighborhood. Her father was a tailor. She was young when the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had taken place, which had influenced her ideologies. Rainer had already become a pacifist and anarchist by the time she was a teenager. In 1938, she had begun writing poetry and prose and won a scholarship to study English literature at Hunter College. In 1944, her first published work, a review, was in the magazine Politics.

Personal life

In the 1950s Rainer lived with the writer Holley Cantine with whom she had a daughter Thérèse.

Legacy

Rainer's papers from the years 1948-1971, largely consisting of her correspondence with the photographer Marion Morehouse and her partner E. E. Cummings, are held at the Lilly Library.

Selected works

• Outside Time (1948)

• Giornale de Venezia (Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory, 167), 1996

• The Uncomfortable Inn (1960)

References

Further reading

External links

• Guide to the Dachine Rainer Papers at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

• Goodbye Man in The Paris Review, 1957