W. D. Snodgrass was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1926 and died on January 13, 2009 in Erieville, NY. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and later took a BA, MA, and MFA from the State University of Iowa. Mr. Snodgrass taught English and
creative writing at various universities, among them Wayne State, Delaware, and Syracuse. His first book of poems, Heart's Needle, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960, and he received numerous other awards and honors for his poetry, translations, and criticism. He
also received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill
foundations, The Academy of American Poets, and The National
Endowment for the Arts. He and his wife, Kathleen, divided their time between Erieville, New York, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
BOA books by W. D. Snodgrass:
After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches
Each in His Season
Fuehrer Bunker
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
Selected Translations
The Furhrer Bunker - A cycle of poems in progress
