Olson, Dr. Charles b. December 27, 1910 d. January 10, 1970 Author, Poet. He was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard, where he studied American civilization. During the Second World War, he worked for the Democratic Party and for the Office of War information as assistant chief of the Foreign Language Division. His first 2 books, "Call Me Ishmael" (1947), a study of Mellville's "Moby-Dick," and "The Mayan Letters" (1953), written to Robert Creeley from Mexico where he was studying Mayan...[Read More] (Bio by: Genet) Beechbrook Cemetery, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA