Theodore Roethke AKA Theodore Huebner Roethke Born: 25-May-1908 Birthplace: Saginaw, MI Died: 1-Aug-1963 Location of death: Bainbridge Island, WA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Oakwood Cemetery, Saginaw, MI
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Waking Father: Otto Roethke (d. 1923 cancer) Mother: Helen Huebner Girlfriend: Mary Kunkel (ex) Girlfriend: Kitty Stokes (ex) Girlfriend: Jerry Lee Willis (teacher, ex) Wife: Beatrice O'Connell (m. 1953)
High School: Arthur Hill High School, Saginaw, MI University: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1929, magna cum laude) University: Harvard University Professor: Lafayette College (1931-35) Professor: Michigan State College, Lansing (1935) Professor: Pennsylvania State University (1936-43) Professor: Bennington College (1943-) Professor: University of Washington
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1954 for The Waking National Book Award for Poetry 1959 for Words for the Wind National Book Award for Poetry 1965 for The Far Field Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1959 Guggenheim Fellowship 1945 Guggenheim Fellowship 1950 Fulbright 1955-56 Nervous Breakdown 1935 Nervous Breakdown 1959 Shock Treatment Risk Factors: Depression
Author of books:
Open House (1941, poetry) The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948, poetry) Praise to the End! (1951, poetry) The Waking: Poems 1933–1953 (1953, poetry) Words for the Wind (1957, poetry) I am! Says the Lamb (1961, poetry) The Far Field (1964, poetry) On the Poet and His Craft (1965, lectures)
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