William Carpenter (writer)
American poet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Carpenter (born October 31, 1940) is the author of three books of poetry, The Hours of Morning, Poems 1976-1979 (University Press of Virginia, 1981), Rain (Northeastern University Press, 1985), Speaking Fire at Stones (Tilbury House, 1992), and (to date) three novels, A Keeper of Sheep (Milkweed Editions, 1996), The Wooden Nickel (Little, Brown & Co., 2002), and Silence (Islandport Press, 2021).
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Born | (1940-10-31) October 31, 1940 (age 83) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Occupation | Author, poet |
Nationality | American |
Education | Dartmouth College (BA) University of Minnesota (PhD) |
Genre | poetry fiction |
Literary movement | College of the Atlantic |
Notable awards | Associated Writing Program's Contemporary Poetry Award, 1980 Samuel French Morse Prize, 1985 National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1985 The New York Public Library “Books for the Teen Age,” 1995 |
Spouse | Donna Gold |
Children | Daniel = Matthew |
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