- Founder of "Masses and Mainstream". Poet.
- Married twice and has three children: Peter, Matthew and John.
- Wrote a number of works of poetry, novels and plays, but never achieved equivalent success to his Jacques Brel work.
- Was introduced to the music of Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel by his wife Elly Stone, who had first heard Brel's music through an acquaintance at a record company.
- Served in Europe during World War II in the United States Army Signal Corps, where he wrote poems for French journals that he had translated into French.
- Was a ghostwriter for sports instruction booklets on behalf of basketball player Bob Cousy and baseball's Roger Maris.
- Became infatuated with the music of Belgium-born Jacques Brel and became the creator of the Off Broadway show "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
- Born to Hungarian immigrants who were residents of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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