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Donald Hall
 Donald
Hall began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf
Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen, the same year he had
his first work published. He earned a B.A. from Harvard in 1951
and a B. Litt. from Oxford in 1953. Hall has published fifteen books
of poetry, most recently The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems
(1998), published on the third anniversary of his wife Jane Kenyon
's death from leukemia. Other notable collections include The One
Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. The
Happy Man (1986) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and Exiles
and Marriages (1955) was the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection for
1956.
Besides poetry, Donald Hall has written books on
baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore,
as well as children's books, short stories, and plays. He has also
published several autobiographical works, such as Life Work (1993),
which won the New England Book award for nonfiction. He has edited
more than two dozen textbooks and anthologies.
His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the
Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime
Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project,
and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. Hall also served as Poet Laureate
of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989. In December 1993 he and Jane
Kenyon were the subject of an Emmy Award-winning Bill Moyers documentary,
"A Life Together." He lives in Danbury, New Hampshire.
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