Reed Whittemore

Poet, Author

1919 – 2012

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Who was Reed Whittemore?

Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. 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.

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Born
Sep 11, 1919
New Haven
Also known as
  • Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr.
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, Yale University
    ( - 1941)
  • Phillips Academy
    ( - 1937)
Lived in
  • College Park
    ( - 2012/04/06)
Died
Apr 6, 2012
Kensington

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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