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W.D. SnodgrassBorn in 1926 in Beaver Falls, PA, W. D. Snodgrass has published over twenty books of poetry, translation, criticism, and memoir. His first book, Heart’s Needle, received the 1960 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry as well as England’s Guinness Prize. The recipient of two honorary doctorates and grants from, among others, the Rockefeller, Ford, and Guggenheim foundations, Snodgrass is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware. A three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award–most recently for his 2006 collection, Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems–Snodgrass was awarded the Academy of American Poets’ Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for his Selected Translations (1998). His poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, APR and The New Criterion. |
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