Abel Meeropol (1903 - 1986) was an American writer best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, under which he wrote the anti-lynching poem "Strange Fruit" which he subsequently set to music and which was famously performed by Billie Holiday. Meeropol was the writer of countless poems and songs, including the Frank Sinatra hit "The House I Live In". He taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, and on the side was an ardent, but closet, … Wikipedia
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