W. D. Snodgrass AKA William De Witt Snodgrass Born: 5-Jan-1926 Birthplace: Wilkinsburg, PA Died: 13-Jan-2009 Location of death: Madison County, NY Cause of death: Cancer - Lung
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Heart's Needle Military service: US Navy (WWII, Pacific theater) Wife: Kathleen Browne (wife #4)
University: Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA University: University of Iowa Professor: Cornell University (1955-57) Professor: University of Rochester (1957-58) Professor: Wayne State University (1958-68) Professor: University of Delaware (1979-94)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1960 for Heart's Needle Guggenheim Fellowship
Author of books:
Heart's Needle (1959, poetry) After Experience (1968, poetry) Remains (1970, poetry) In Radical Pursuit (1975, criticism) The Führer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress (1977, poetry) If Birds Build with Your Hair (1979, poetry) D.D. Byrde Calling Jennie Wrenn (1984, poetry) W.D.'s Midnight Carnival (1988, poetry) The Death of Cock Robin (1989, poetry) The Führer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (1995, poetry) To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (2003, criticism)
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