William Matthews

William Matthews is composed of at least 7 distinct authors.

Also known as: William Matthews LL.D., William, Editor Matthews, William Matthews (compiler), William - Compiler. Matthews

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William Matthews is composed of at least 7 distinct authors (edit assignments). LibraryThing has only recently introduced this feature. In the near future distinct authors will have their own pages.

William Matthews (1)

Search Party: Collected Poems 32 copies, 1 review
Time & Money 31 copies, 1 review
Selected Poems and Translations: 1969-1991 30 copies, 1 review
After All: Last Poems 22 copies, 1 review
A Happy Childhood 12 copies
Blues If You Want 12 copies
Sleek For the Long Flight 11 copies
Foreseeable Futures 10 copies
Flood: Poems 9 copies
The Pushcart Prize XXI: Best of the Small Presses (1997) 8 copies
Rising and Falling: Poems 6 copies
Ruining the New Road 4 copies, 1 review
The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews (Poets on Poetry) 3 copies
Sticks & stones: [poems] 2 copies

The Mortal City: 100 Epigrams of Martial 1 copy

Broken syllables [poems] 1 copy

Curiosities 1 copy

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William Matthews (3)

Cowboys & Images: The Watercolors of WIlliam Matthews 3 copies
William Matthews: Working the west 2 copies

William Matthews (4)

Fossils: An Introduction to Prehistoric Life 1 copy

William Matthews (5)

Words: Their Use and Abuse 2 copies
The Great Conversers and Other Essays 1 copy

William Matthews (6)

An address to the public 1 copy

William Matthews (7)

The difficulties of deciding what books to read 1 copy

William Matthews (unknown)

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Date of birth

1942-11-11

Date of death

1997-11-12

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Gender

male

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Places of residence

Cincinnati, New Haven, Chapel Hill, Ithaca, Boston, Boulder, NYC

Education

Yale, NC Chapel Hill

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Awards and honors

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1997), Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, NEA Fellow

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Disambiguation notice

1) CK above. 2) Matthews, William, 1905-1975 wrote American diaries. 3) Matthews, William, 1949- wrote Cowboys & images. 4) Matthews, William Henry, 1919- wrote Fossils. 5) Mathews, William 1818-1909 wrote Words, Their Use and Abuse. 6) Matthews, William 1755-1807 or 8 wrote An Address to the Public. 7) Matthews, William 1822-1896 wrote The difficulties of deciding what books to read.

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