He belonged to the poetic avant garde of the 1930s and was a Marxist, a founder-member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the United States.
[1] He died after being struck by an automobile at the intersection of Beacon St. and Massachusetts Avenue in the early morning hours of September 13, 1940.
His Selected Poems was published posthumously a few months later, with an introduction by his friend R.P.
[4] He then studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before practising as an architect in Boston.
From 1930 to 1932, Wheelwright worked with Lincoln Kirstein and Walker Evans to photograph Victorian architecture in Boston.