Reed Whittemore (1919–2012)
Author of William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey
About the Author
Reed Whittemore was born Edward Reed Whittemore Jr. in New Haven, Connecticut on September 11, 1919. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University. He co-founded a literary magazine Furioso while attending Yale. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces. He was a show more member of the faculty of Carleton College in Minnesota for nearly two decades before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland from 1968 to 1984. He was the literary editor of The New Republic from 1969 to 1973. He wrote numerous collections of poetry including Heroes and Heroines (1946), The Self-Made Man (1959), and The Feel of Rock: Poems of Three Decades (1982). He also wrote several non-fiction works including William Carlos Williams, Poet from Jersey (1975), Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate (1993), and Against the Grain (2007). He served as the poet laureate of the United States from 1964 to 1965 and from 1984 to 1985. He died on April 6, 2012 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Reed Whittemore
William Carlos Williams : "the happy genius of the household" : a centennial lecture, delivered at the Library of… (1984) 5 copies
Six Literary Lives: The Shared Impiety of Adams, London, Sinclair, Williams, Dos Passos, and Tate (1992) 5 copies
Poems: New and Selected 4 copies
The self-made man and other poems 4 copies
Associated Works
New poems 1944. An anthology of American and British verse with a selection of poems from the armed forces. (1944) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Whittemore, Edward Reed, Jr
- Birthdate
- 1919-09-11
- Date of death
- 2012-04-06
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Place of death
- Kensington, Maryland, USA
- Education
- Yale University (BA|1941)
- Occupations
- teacher
poet - Organizations
- US Army Air Forces (WWII)
- Awards and honors
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1964-1965)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1984-1985, interim)
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- Works
- 27
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 136
- Popularity
- #149,926
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 22