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Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht , of the World War II generation , Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance.
Richard Arnold Wilber (born 1948) is an American author, poet, editor and professor. His novel, Alien Morning (Tor, 2016), was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2017.
Max Waldau (1825–1855, Germany, p/f), pseudonym of Richard Georg Spiller von Hauenschild Eva Waldemarsson (1903–1986, Sweden, f) Herwarth Walden (1879–1941, Germany/Soviet Union, nf), pseudonym of Georg Lewin
Despite his original reluctance, the involvement of Richard Wilbur as the keynote speaker at the first conference in 1995 was a major reason for both its success and subsequent continuation. Richard Wilbur also continued to attend the Conference and teach classes there on the poets craft until well into his nineties. [19]
The Richard Wilbur Award is an American poetry award and publishing prize given by University of Evansville in Indiana. It is named in honor of the American poet Richard Wilbur [ A ] and was established by William Baer , a professor at the University of Evansville.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
He also served as the poetry editor and film critic for Crisis Magazine, the founding director of the St. Robert Southwell Institute, the director of the University of Evansville Press, the faculty director of The Evansville Review, and the founding director of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Series, [3] the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, [4] and the ...
Lee Hawkins, author, journalist, musician; Kenneth Roberts, historical novelist; Clinton Scollard, poet and writer of fiction in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Richard Wilbur, poet, two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [5]