Dr. Lita Romola Rothbard Hornick (1927–2000) was an American literary researcher, editor, publisher, patron of poets, and art collector, best known for the

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magazine ''Kulchur'' that she turned into the Kulchur Foundation.

Life and career

Lita Rothbard was born in 1927 in

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. In 1948 she obtained a BA from

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. In 1949, she graduated with an MA and in 1958 with a Ph.D.

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, writing her thesis on Dorothy Richardson and her dissertation on

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. After marrying Morton Hornick, she took over ''Kulchur'' starting with its third issue (1961), running it as a magazine until 1965. Subsequently, Hornick operated the Kulchur Press that she then turned into the Kulchur Foundation.http://www.eltpress.org/RichCalendar/CalendarPDF/1FrontMatter.pdf

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