Cornel Adam Lengyel (January 2, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American poet, historian, playwright and translator.
His vision of life: his response to the oddity, terror, humor, beauty, pathos, or grandeur of experience.
He would renew our original sense of wonder at the mystery of things and speak in a human voice fittingly of man's mortal adventures amid the immortal dance of the elements.
It persists through life.” In 1935, his first poetic drama The World's My Village won the Berkeley Playcrafters Production Prize and was later published in Poet Lore.
From 1937, as playwright for the Federal Theatre, his Bridge-Builders was performed with chorus and symphony at the Veterans' Auditorium in San Francisco.
While overseas, he won the Maritime Poetry Award, first prize in an international contest; the late William Rose Benet read his verse over CBS.
In 1946, he fled the city for eighty acres in the woods of El Dorado Forest near Georgetown, California.
In 1969, he founded Dragon's Teeth Press and continued as executive editor, publishing works of poetry, fiction, and plays.