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Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1951 and a B. Litt. from Oxford University in 1953. He was a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (1954-1957), and from 1957 to 1975 he taught at the University of Michigan. In addition, he has been poetry editor for the Paris Review, a member of the editorial board of poetry at Wesleyan University Press, and poetry consultant for Harper and Row. He is a recipient of the Lamont Poetry Selection Award (1955), the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Prize (1956), the Longview Foundation Award (1960), two Guggenheim Fellowships (1963, 1972), and a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989 for The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts. Apart from his books of poetry, he has authored a play, three books for children, and various works of prose.
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