Reed Whittemore | |
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Born | Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. September 11, 1919 New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
Died | April 6, 2012 | (aged 92)
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. (September 11, 1919 – April 6, 2012[1]) was an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964, and in 1984.[2]