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(1927-2014) Poet. Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Sheffield, Vermont. He received a master’s degree from the University of Rochester.

Full Name

Galway Mills Kinnell

Locations

Monroe

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Kinnell was a professor and director of the creative writing program at New York University.

1927

BIRTH

Galway Mills Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 1, 1927.

1949

OTHER

Mr. Kinnell received a master's degree from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, in 1949.

1966

LITWORK

Black Light
Houghton Mifflin
1131015479 / 978-1131015477
Novel.

1967

LITWORK

Body Rags
Houghton Mifflin Company

Collection of poetry.

1971

LITWORK

The Book of Nightmares
Houghton Mifflin
0395120977 / 978-0395120972
Book-length poem.

1980

LITWORK

Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
Houghton Mifflin
0395291259 / 978-0395291252
Collection of poetry.

1982

LITWORK

Selected Poems
Houghton Mifflin

Collection of poetry which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983.

1982

LITWORK

How The Alligator Missed Breakfast
Houghton Mifflin
978-0-395-32436-3
Children's book.

1985

LITWORK

The Past
Houghton Mifflin
978-0-395-39385-7
Collection of poetry.

2000

LITWORK

A New Selected Poems
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
978-0-618-15445-6
Collection of poetry.

2002

LITWORK

The Avenue Bearing The Initial Of Christ Into The New World: Poems, 1953-1964
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
978-0-618-21912-4.
Collection of poetry.

2006

LITWORK

Strong Is Your Hold
Houghton Mifflin
978-0-618-22497-5
Collection of poetry.

2014

DEATH

Galway Kinnell died at his home in Sheffield, Vermont, on October 28, 2014.

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