biography
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Hall, Donald (Andrew, Jr)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He studied at Harvard (1951 BA), Oxford University (1953 B Litt), and Stanford (1953–4). He taught at the University of Michigan (1957–75), became a freelance writer in 1975, and worked as a television and radio broadcaster. He wrote plays, literary criticism, children's stories, books about baseball, and a memoir, String Too Short to Be Saved (1961). An editor of many poetry anthologies, he is best known as a tough, witty lyric poet, as seen in The Museum of Clear Ideas (1993). He and his wife, Jane Kenyon, lived in Wilmot, NH. |
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