| Donald Hall AKA Donald Andrew Hall, Jr.
Born: 20-Sep-1928 Birthplace: New Haven, CT
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: The One Day Wife: Jane Kenyon (b. 1947, m. 1972, d. 1995 leukemia)
University: BA, Harvard University (1951) University: B. Litt, Oxford University (1953)
US Poet Laureate (2006-07) Massachusetts State Official Poet Laureate (1984-89) The Paris Review Poetry Editor (1953-62) Romney Victory Inc. Guggenheim Fellowship (twice) Caldecott Medal 1980 for Ox-Cart Man National Book Critics Circle Award 1989 for The One Day Vasectomy
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Baseball (18-Sep-1994) · Himself
Author of books:
Exiles and Marriages (1955, poetry) The Dark Houses (1958, poetry) String Too Short to Be Saved (1961, memoir) A Roof of Tiger Lilies (1964, poetry) The Alligator Bride (1968, poetry) Marianne Moore (1970, criticism) The Yellow Room (1971, poetry) Writing Well (1973, criticism) The Town of Hill (1975, poetry) Kicking the Leaves (1978, poetry) Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird (1978, criticism) Ox-Cart Man (1979, juvenile) To Read Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Drama (1981, criticism) The Weather for Poetry (1982, criticism) Fathers Playing Catch with Sons (1985) The Happy Man (1986, poetry) The One Day (1988, poetry) Old and New Poems (1990, poetry) Life Work (1993, memoir) The Old Life (1996, poetry) Without: Poems (1998, poetry) The Painted Bed (2002, poetry) Willow Temple: New and Selected Stories (2003, short stories)
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