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James Whitehead (poet) was born on 15 March, 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American poet and novelist. Discover James Whitehead (poet)'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 67 years old?
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15 March, 1936 |
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St. Louis, Missouri |
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16 August, 2003 |
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Fayetteville, Arkansas |
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United States
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James Whitehead (poet) Height, Weight & Measurements
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James Whitehead (poet) Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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James Tillotson Whitehead (March 15, 1936 St. Louis, Missouri - August 16, 2003 Fayetteville, Arkansas) was an American poet and novelist.
He published four books of poetry and one novel, Joiner.
James Whitehead was born in St. Louis in 1936.
He grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, where his family moved after World War II.
Standing six foot 5 inches, and known as "Big Jim" he received a football scholarship at Vanderbilt University.
However, a serious injury there dashed any hopes he had of a professional career.
Instead, he focused on his studies, earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy, then staying for a master's degree in English.
He then went to the University of Iowa where he acquired an M.F.A. in creative writing.
Whitehead then joined his college friend William Harrison in founding the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
They were soon joined by poet Miller Williams, and the three men continued to build what would become one the nations most distinguished writing programs.
Whitehead taught at Arkansas for 34 years, from 1965 to 1999.
Whitehead's only published novel, Joiner, came in 1971.
The story about an intellectual NFL tackle from segregated Mississippi received wide acclaim from the most respected reviewers including the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post.
In reviewing the book for Times, novelist R. V. Cassill, wrote: "What Whitehead has achieved is to sound the full range of the Deep South's exultation and lament. Once again, we are told that Mississippi is our Ireland, in literature and politics. His tirade makes an awesome, fearful and glorious impact on the mind and ear."
Many people, including President Jimmy Carter considered Joiner to be “one of the South’s best novels.”
Whitehead was constantly revising and experimenting, sometimes to a fault.
Literary critic James S. Baumlin, on reading Whitehead's cache of unpublished manuscripts, describes Whitehead's “torturous writing process”:
Whitehead published four books of poetry: "Domains," "Local Men," "Actual Size" and "Near at Hand."
In 2003 he died on the 44th anniversary of his marriage with Guendaline Graeber Whitehead, with whom he had seven children.
