William Jay Smith (1918–2015)
Autor de Ho for a Hat!
Sobre El Autor
William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana on April 22, 1918. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in French literature from Washington University in St. Louis and did graduate work at Columbia University and Oxford University. During World War II, he served with the Navy in the mostrar más Pacific. During his lifetime, he wrote several collections of poetry including The Tin Can, and Other Poems; Plain Talk: Epigrams, Epitaphs, Satires, Nonsense, Occasional, Concrete and Quotidian Poems; The World Below the Window: Poems, 1937-1997; and The Cherokee Lottery. He also wrote a memoir entitled Army Brat and several collections of children's poems including Boy Blue's Book of Beasts and Ho for a Hat! He was the consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. He died on August 18, 2015 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photo credit: Robert Turney
Obras de William Jay Smith
Louise Bogan: a woman's words: A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress, May 4, 1970. With a bibliography (1971) 3 copias
Typewriter Town 2 copias
Puptents and pebbles; a nonsense ABC 2 copias
What did I see? — Autor — 2 copias
Translation 1 copia
Unicorn 1 copia
Army Brat 1 copia
Poems 1 copia
My Little Library -- Book 1 - Little Dimity, Book 2 - Big Gumbo, Book 3 - Big and Little -- Illustrated by Don… (1963) 1 copia
Typewriter birds 1 copia
Collected Poems 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 915 copias
The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca (New Directions Paperbook) (English and Spanish Edition) (1955) — Traductor — 697 copias
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 11, July 1977 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Smith, William Jay
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1918-04-22
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2015-08-18
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Winnfield, Louisiana, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, USA
Cummington, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France - Educación
- Washington University (BA | 1939 | MA | 1941)
Columbia University
University of Florence
Oxford University - Ocupaciones
- teacher
politician
poet
translator - Relaciones
- Howes, Barbara (spouse)
- Organizaciones
- Hollins University
- Premios y honores
- U.S. Poet Laureate (1968-1970)
Louisiana Writer Award (2001)
Rhodes Scholar
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1975)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 50
- También por
- 22
- Miembros
- 431
- Popularidad
- #56,717
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 56