Nancy Willard papers, 1941- .

Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014

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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. As a member of the Weavers, Seeger was often heard on the radio in the early 1950s, most notably on their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene". In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have ...

Jackson, Edgar N. (Edgar Newman), 1910-1994

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Bennett, Bruce, poet.

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Peterson, Eleanor Ann, 1937-

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Lish, Gordon, 1937-

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Gordon Lish was fiction editor at Esquire from 1969 until 1976. From the description of Letter : Esquire, 7 July [1969-1976?]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 47668796 ...

Wolitzer, Hilma

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Alden, Ann-Marie.

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Keniston, Roberta Cannell, 1908- .

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Mezey, Robert

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Robert Mezey, writer, was born in 1935 in Philadelphia. Winner in 1960 of the Lamont Award for The Lovemaker, he has published many poetry collections, coedited Naked Poetry (1969), and was one of several translators for Poems from the Hebrew (1973). Evening Wind , a book of poems, appeared in 1987. His poems, prose, and translations have been appearing since 1953 in many journals, including The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, The Partisan Review, and the Yale Review among others. His books of...

Modugno, Maria.

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Lurie, Alison

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Lurie was born on Sept. 3, 1926 in Chicago, IL; BA, Radcliffe College, 1947; married Jonathan Peale Bishop, Sept. 10, 1948; lecturer (1969-73), assoc. professor (1973-76), and professor of English in 1976, Cornell Univ.; named Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American literature in 1989; won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her Foreign Affairs (1984); other books include The nowhere city (1965), Imaginary friends (1967), The war between the Tates (1974), and The Oxford book of modern fairy ...

Armen, Eloise.

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Bly, Robert W.

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American poet. From the description of The man in the black coat turns, 1981 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823162 Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. John Gill published a small literary journal in the 1960s entitled New American and Canadian Poetry. He also authored books of poetry, as well as published books of poetry of others under the name of New Books be...

Wells, Carlton F. (Carlton Frank), 1898-

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Professor of English at University of Michigan. From the description of Carlton F. Wells papers, 1910-1993. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420048 Wells was an English professor at the Univ. of MI; was an author and editor. From the description of Collection of material about The moon is down by John Steinbeck, 1942-1945. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41520106 Biography ...

Shekerjian, Regina

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Bloom, Daniel Halevi

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Gottlieb, Darcy

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Tucker, S. Robert, 1921-1996

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Robert E. Tucker, Sr. was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1924. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 1947 with a degree in forestry. He worked for the Continental Can Company for most of his career, working seventeen years in their factory in Savannah, Georgia. Tucker retired in 1981 and continued to call Savannah his home until his death in 1998. From the description of Robert E. Tucker photographic slides, 1964-1977. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 301811...

Lowenfels, Walter, 1897-1976

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Walter Lowenfels began working on New jazz poets in 1962 to collect a group of poems written in a "modern rhythm influenced by street sounds and other non-literary sounds of the 1960s" that would be anthologized and a select few recorded for an album. Released in 1967, the album contained readings by twenty-one poets. The anthology containing the works of over seventy poets was published in 1970 as In a time of revolution, poems from our third world. From the description of New jazz ...

Dorman, Sonya, 1924-2005

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Friebert, Stuart, 1931-....

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Siegl, Helene

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Helen Siegl was born August 18, 1924, in Vienna, Austria. She came to the United States in 1952, working as an artist and book illustrator. She has put on numerous one-person shows, and has participated in group shows. She invented and developed the plaster block print technique. Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. 34. From the description of Helen Siegl Papers 1968-1973. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 437298047 Illustrator. ...

Amoss, Berthe

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Berthe Amoss was born in New Orleans and attended Newcomb College and Tulane University, earning degrees in English and art. From 1982 until 1994, she taught children's literature at Tulane. She is an author and illustrator of children's books, books for young adults, and how-to books. She has designed advent calendars for the National Gallery of Art. She was the first recipient of the Newcomb College Authors Fellowship, and taught a course on children's literature from 2001-2003. She and her hu...

Hein, Mike, of New York.

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Lucas, Barbara, 1939-

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Adoff, Arnold

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Arnold Adoff was born in New York, New York, in 1935. He received his B.A. from City College of New York, after which he pursued graduate studies at Columbia University. Adoff initially was employed within the New York public school system for several years before pursuing work as an anthologist, children's poet, and author. In 1960 he married noted author Virginia Hamilton, and the couple eventually settled in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with their two children. Adoff's works touch upon a number of s...

Bier, Anna.

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Bryant, Paula

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Rockwell, Nancy T.

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Hall, Donald, 1928-....

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Hall is an American poet, essayist, and teacher. From the description of Compositions 1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609338 From the description of Papers, 1956-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122357326 From the guide to the Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the guide to the Compositions, 1962., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Universit...

Lytthans, Birte.

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Gatti, Clare.

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Tupper, Willa P.

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Smith, Virginia B.

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Franceschelli, Christopher

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Provensen, Alice

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Martin Provensen was born July 10, 1916, in Chicago, IL. Alice Twitchell was born August, 14, 1918, also in Chicago. They met on a movie lot while working for a film for the U.S. Navy, and married in Washington, DC, in 1944. They spent more that 40 years creating scores of books for children. Their critically acclaimed work won many awards, including the 1984 Caldecott Medal for The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot. Prior to their marriage, Martin worked in the story depart...

Pastan, Linda, 1932-

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King, Cynthia R.

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Madonia, Gail.

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Levin, Dan

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Spady, Susan.

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Vas Dias, Robert

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Leighton, Roberta.

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Jovanovich, Peter, 1949- .

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Hogarth, Fran.

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Scott, Rita

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Provensen, Martin

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Ignatow, David, 1914-1997

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David Ignatow (1914- ), American poet and author of numerous books of poems. From the description of David Ignatow collection. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79463214 David Ignatow -- poet, editor, free-lance writer and teacher -- was born in New York and pursued formal education to the high school level. He published his first volume of poems in 1948 and since then has produced more than 15 volumes of poetry. Ignatow has also served as editor of sev...

Russell, Diarmuid, -1973

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Woods, John E.

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Jovanovich, Robin.

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Livingston, Myra Cohn

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American author, anthologist, and critic of children's literature. From the description of Monkey puzzle and other poems : production material. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62685273 American author, anthologist, and critic of children's poetry; Kerlan Award winner, 1994. From the description of Papers, 1946-1993. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62436249 American author, anthologist, and critic of...

Singer, Brett

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Jovanovich, William

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Hitchcock, George, active 1691

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Bissell, Hillary.

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Siyahi, Carol.

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Fisch, Barbara.

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Hopkins, Lee Bennett.

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Lee Bennett Hopkins was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1938. He earned degrees from Newark State Teachers College, Bank Street College of Education, and Hunter College of the City University of New York. He began his career as a public school teacher and worked as a curriculum and editorial specialist before turning to full-time writing in 1976. He is noted as one of America's most prolific anthologists of poetry for children and he frequently works with single themes for the anthologies such...

McKean, Robert C.

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Guiliano, Edward

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Curry, Jane, 1945-

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Performer. Jane Curry, a native of Speedway, Indiana, received her B.A. (1967) in English from Hanover College and an A.M. (1970) and Ph.D (1975) in American Culture from the University of Michigan. She has been employed as an Assistant Professor of English and American Studies (1974-1978) at Lafayette College and as an independent scholar. Since 1981 she has been writing and performing independently and as part of the Minnesota Chautauqua. Her programs have included "Sa...

Moore, Lilian

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Lilian Moore (1909-2004), known for her work as a children's author, poet, and educator, was born in New York City. She was educated at Hunter College, B.A., English, 1930; and did graduate work at Columbia University. Afterward, she began teaching elementary school. Skilled at working with illiterate children lead her to a position at New York's Bureau of Educational Research. She trained teachers to deal with reading difficulties. While she was working at the Bureau she began writing easy-to-r...

O'Donnell, Elizabeth Lee

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Willard, Nancy

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American writer, graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A., 1958; Ph. D., 1963); winner of major and minor Hopwood Awards (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958); regular participant at Breadloaf Writers' Conference (1975- ); lecturer in English at Vassar College. From the description of Papers, 1941- (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365046 American author and illustrator of children's books; Newbery Award winner in 1982. From the description of Papers, 1945-1...

Ignatow, Rose Graubart

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Biography Rose Graubart Ignatow studied art at Cooper Union and at the Art Students League in New York; attended Philip Evergood's Artist Equity class; and worked with Jack Levine. She has exhibited paintings and drawings in shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1951-53), the Flordia Museum (1952), the West Virginia Museum (1953), the Baltimore Museum "Seaport Show" (1954), and the Jewish Museum in New York. She has also had one-person exh...

Plume, Ilse

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Preuss, Lawrence, 1905-1956

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Professor of political science at the University of Michigan, specialist in international law. From the description of Lawrence Preuss papers, 1945-1954 and undated. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422744 ...

Aloff, Mindy, 1947-....

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Turco, Lewis

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Author, poet, and teacher. From the description of Papers, 1949-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70928986 Poet; Oswego, N.Y. and Maine. From the description of Lewis Turco and George O'Connell Christmas card collection, 1966-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83636722 ...

Tagliabue, John, 1923-....

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John Tagliabue (1923-2006) was an American poet and playwright. Born in Italy, Tagliabue came with his family to the United States while still a child. He studied English at Columbia University where his fellow students inluded Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and over his career received six Fulbright fellowships which he spent in Italy, China, Japan, and Indonesia. He taught for more than 35 years (1953-1989) at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he actively recruited notable poets like D...

Yorton, Linda.

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Machemer, Corona.

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McGrew, Julia H., 1920-

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George, Emery Edward, 1933-....

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University of Michigan professor of Germanic Language, Literature, and Culture, scholar and translator of East and Central European literature, poet. From the description of Emery George papers, 1965-[ongoing]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 244064926 ...

Walker, Sydney, 1921-1994

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Tagliabue, Grace.

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