David (Russell) Wagoner | Biography

David Wagoner was born in Massillon, Ohio. He was educated at Pennsylvania State University, where he received a B.A. in 1947. In 1949, he earned an M.A. in creative writing from Indiana University. Formerly an instructor at DePauw University (1949-1950) and Pennsylvania State University (1950-1954), Wagoner has taught at the University of Washington since 1954, and since 1966 he has been a professor of English. He has also served as the editor of Poetry Northwest since 1966 and as editor for the Princeton Poetry Series since 1978. In 1978, he was elected to succeed Robert Lowell as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship (1956), a Ford fellowship (1964), a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant (1967), Poetry maganzine's Morton Dauwen Zabel Prize (1967), a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1969), Poetry's Oscar Blumenthal Prize (1974) and...
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