William Stafford (1) (1914–1993)
Autore di The Way It Is
Per altri autori con il nome William Stafford, vedi la pagina di disambiguazione.
Sull'Autore
William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas on January 17, 1914. He received a B.A. in 1937 and a master's degree in English in 1947 from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1954. During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector and worked in mostra altro the civilian public service camps. He wrote about this experience in the prose memoir Down in My Heart, which was published in 1947. He taught at Lewis and Clark College from 1948 until his retirement in 1980. During his lifetime, he published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose including The Rescued Year, Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems, Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation, and An Oregon Message. He received several awards including a Shelley Memorial Award, a Western States Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, and the National Book Award in 1963 for Traveling Through the Dark. In 1970, he was the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a position currently known as the Poet Laureate). He died on August 28, 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: KIM STAFFORD
Opere di William Stafford
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life (Poets on Poetry) (2003) 33 copie
Five American Poets — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Hearing Voices 1 copia
A Glass Face in the Rain 1 copia
Unknown Good in Our Enemies: William Stafford Reads Poems of Reconciliation [Compact Disc CD] (2003) 1 copia
At the Bomb Testing Site {poem} 1 copia
Absolution 1 copia
Sleeping at a Friend's House. 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 930 copie
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Collaboratore — 152 copie
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Collaboratore — 87 copie
Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1978-1983 (Contemporary Anthology Series) (1987) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Poems by Ghalib (The Hudson Review) — Traduttore — 2 copie
The New York quarterly : NYQ : Number 35, Spring 1988 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Out Of Sight *90: A Primer of Domestic Poetry — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Dacotah territory 5 summer-fall 1973 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The North Dakota quarterly : vol. 50, no 4, Fall 1982 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Stafford, William Edgar
- Altri nomi
- Stafford, William E.
- Data di nascita
- 1914-01-17
- Data di morte
- 1993-08-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Liberal, Kansas, USA
North Manchester, Indiana, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA - Istruzione
- University of Kansas
University of Iowa - Attività lavorative
- professor
poet - Relazioni
- Stafford, Kim Robert (son)
Bly, Robert (friend) - Organizzazioni
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
Civilian Public Service
Church of the Brethren
Lewis & Clark College
Manchester College - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1970-1971)
Poet Laureate of Oregon (1975-1993)
Nation Book Award (1963)
Shelley Memorial Award (1963/1964)
Frost Medal (1992/1993)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1981]) (mostra tutto 7)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1976)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 78
- Opere correlate
- 38
- Utenti
- 1,876
- Popolarità
- #13,729
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 28
- ISBN
- 133
- Preferito da
- 4
"Many things true when said, the world makes untrue."
"If there is a trail, you have taken a wrong turn."
"Strange, the best part of a room is a window."
"The sky is bigger than any country."
"There are many of those who have sense enough to come in out of the rain who do not have sense enough to go out in the sun."
"My kind of faith is that most mountains won't move."
"It is not the sound of the ax that cuts down the tree."
“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.”
… (altro)