About Jamil B. Holway | Academy of American Poets
Jamil B. Holway - Jamil Butrus Holway was born in Damascus, Syria on August 15, 1883. He graduated from Syrian Protestant College (now, American University in Beirut), then relocated to Chicago, where his parents were residing, at the turn of the twentieth century. Holway later lived in Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas before moving to Brooklyn, New York in 1928 with his family. He remained there for the rest of his life.
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