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Auden, Stephen Crane and Emily Dickinson) served to inspire and influence him. After his recovery he left Zebulon and moved to Nashville, Tennessee the poetry he read there (by Stevie Smith, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, W. Īt 18, while drinking and driving, a car accident left him partially paralyzed in a Deceminterview with Terry Gross on her NPR show Fresh Air, he said he was "a quadriplegic from neck down", and although he had feeling and some movement in his body, he could not walk "functionally" and that, although he realized shortly afterward that he could still play guitar, he could only play simple chords. When he was 13, Chesnutt declared that he was an atheist, a position that he maintained for the rest of his life. An adoptee, Chesnutt was raised in Zebulon, Georgia, where he first started writing songs at the age of five.
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