Huff, Robert, 1924-1993.

Born in 1924, Robert Huff was educated at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He taught English at several universities in the western U.S. before taking a position at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA., from where he retired in 1989. Huff's first book of poetry, COLONEL JOHNSON'S RIDE, appeared in 1959, after which he published four other collections of poetry: THE COURSE (1966); THE VENTRILOQUIST (1977); SHORE GUIDE TO FLOCKING BIRDS (1985), and AMY (1986). He was a Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellow in 1961 and a MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.) Fellow in 1963. He died in a fire at his home in 1993.