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Nikos Stangos

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Born: December 31 1935

Died: 3131 12 20032003

Born in Athens, Greece in 1936 to a well-to-do Greek family - his father attended MIT - Stangos was sent to the United States for much of his education, receiving a BA from Denison University, earning an MA from Wesleyan and doing graduate work in philosophy at Harvard. Nothing if not cosmopolitan, he finally settled in London, where he eventually became a poetry editor at Penguin and, later, a director for Thames & Hudson, with responsibility for many of that company's widely admired art books. In 1965 Stangos met the American-born In writer David Plante, and the two young men fell in love and remained partners for nearly 40 years. The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief is Plante's re-creation of their now-vanished life together. Stangos died of cancer in 2004.
- adapted from Michael Dirda's Washington Post article, "Elegy to a Lost Love"