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William Morris Meredith Jr. was born on 9 January, 1919 in New York City, U.S., is an American poet. Discover William Morris Meredith Jr.'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As William Morris Meredith Jr.
Occupation Author poet professor
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 9 January 1919
Birthday 9 January
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Date of death 30 May, 2007
Died Place New London, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1919

William Morris Meredith Jr. (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator.

1936

He attended Lenox School in Massachusetts, graduating in 1936.

He began writing while a college student at Princeton University.

1940

He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton in 1940, having written a senior thesis on Robert Frost.

1941

Meredith worked briefly for the New York Times as a copy boy and reporter before joining the United States Army Air Force in 1941.

The next year, he transferred to the United States Navy as a carrier pilot.

He served in the Aleutian Islands and Pacific Theater and reached the rank of lieutenant.

1944

His first volume of poetry, Love Letter from an Impossible Land, appeared in 1944.

Archibald Macleish selected it for publication as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.

1946

From 1946 to 1950, Meredith had several teaching appointments at Princeton University: Instructor in English, Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Writing, and Resident Fellow in Creative Writing.

1950

This was followed by an appointment as associate professor at the University of Hawaii (1950–51).

1952

He continued his service in the United States Navy Reserve until 1952, when he reenlisted to serve in the Korean War.

He ultimately attained the rank of lieutenant commander and was awarded two Air Medals.

1964

He was also an instructor at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference from 1964 to 1971.

From 1964 to 1987, Meredith served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

1965

Meredith was promoted to professor in 1965.

He settled on a farm in Uncasville, where he continued to write poetry and developed his talents as an arborist, planting and nurturing rare trees on the banks of the Thames.

During this period, he also taught for several years in the summer graduate program at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English.

1978

He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980, and the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Meredith was born in New York City to William Morris Meredith Sr. and Nelley Keyser.

From 1978 to 1980, he was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the position which in 1985 became the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

He has the distinction of being the first gay poet to receive this honor.

1983

After the Korean War he was hired as an associate professor of English at Connecticut College, where he taught until 1983.

In 1983, Meredith suffered a stroke and was immobilized for two years.

The stroke caused expressive aphasia, which affected his ability to produce language.

Meredith ended his teaching career and could not write poetry during this period.

He regained many of his language skills after intensive therapy and traveling to Britain for treatment.

1988

In 1988, Meredith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a Los Angeles Times Book Award for Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems.

1994

Connecticut College acquired the papers in 1994.

They are in the Special Collections department of the Charles E. Shain Library.

One may consult the collection by arrangement with the Special Collections Librarian.

The library also has a virtually complete collection of Meredith's published work, including many of the anthologies and issues of literary journals in which individual poems were published or reprinted.

The book collection also includes presentation copies of Robert Frost's poetry that Frost gave Meredith, several with inscriptions and holograph poems.

1997

In 1997, he won the National Book Award for Poetry for Effort at Speech.

Meredith also received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Carl Sandburg Award, and the International Vaptsarov Prize in Poetry.

One of the most complete collections of Meredith's work, "The William Meredith Papers," is housed at Connecticut College, where he taught.

The collection documents his life and work as of one of Connecticut College's most eminent faculty members and one of the nation's most respected poets.

The collection contains letters, drafts, speeches, and papers relating to many organizations with which Meredith was associated, such as the Library of Congress, the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Connecticut College, Princeton University, Yaddo, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, cultural and governmental agencies in Bulgaria, and the Estate of W. H. Auden.

2006

A longtime admirer of W. B. Yeats, Meredith fulfilled his ambition to visit Yeats's spiritual homeplace of Sligo, Ireland, in 2006.

While there he also attended the Yeats International Summer School, which attracts many academics and admirers of Yeats to Sligo every summer.