Born: 6-May-1914
Birthplace: Nashville, TN
Died: 14-Oct-1965
Location of death: Chapel Hill, NC
Cause of death: Accident - Automobile
Remains: Buried, New Garden Friends Cemetery, Greensboro, NC

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Woman at the Washington Zoo

Military service: US Army Air Corps

Wife: Mackie Langham (m. 1940)
Wife: Mary von Schrader (m. 1952)

    University: MA, Vanderbilt University (1938)
    Professor: Sarah Lawrence College (1946-47)
    Professor: University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1947-65)

    National Book Award for Poetry 1961 for The Woman at the Washington Zoo

Author of books:
Blood for a Stranger (1942, poetry)
Little Friend, Little Friend (1945, poetry)
Losses (1948, poetry)
The Seven-League Crutches (1951, poetry)
Poetry and the Age (1953, criticism)
Pictures from an Institution (1954, novel)
The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960, poetry)
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962, criticism)
The Lost World (1965, poetry)
The Third Book of Criticism (1969, criticism)
Complete Poems (1969, poetry)
No Other Book (2000, criticism)

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