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(1924-2011) Poet. John Haines was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and died in Fairbanks, Alaska. He attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Guggenheim Museum and the New York City Public High Schools.

Full Name

John Haines

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1924

BIRTH

John Meade Haines was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1924.

1950

OTHER

Mr. Haines attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art in Manhattan, New York, in 1950 through 1952.

1966

LITWORK

Winter News
Wesleyan University Press.
ASIN: B001G5C3E4.
Poetry.

1982

LITWORK

Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place
University of Michigan Press.
ISBN-10: 0472063332, ISBN-13: 978-0472063338.
Essays.

1982

LITWORK

News from the Glacier / Selected Poems 1960-1980
Wesleyan University Press.
ISBN-10: 0819550647, ISBN-13: 978-0819550644.
Poetry.

1989

LITWORK

The Stars, The Snow, The Fire
Graywolf Press.
ASIN: B000LY1VN0.
Memoir.

1990

LITWORK

Rain Country
Mad River Press, Richmond, Massachusetts.
ISBN-10: 0944156053, ISBN-13: 978-0944156056.
Poetry.

1993

LITWORK

The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems
Graywolf Press.
ISBN-10: 1555971849, ISBN-13: 978-1555971847.
Poetry.

1996

LITWORK

Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays
Graywolf Press.
ISBN-10: 1555972276, ISBN-13: 978-1555972271.
Essays.

1997

LITWORK

At The End Of This Summer: Poems, 1948-1954
Copper Canyon Press.
ISBN-10: 1556590792, ISBN-13: 978-1556590795.
Poetry.

2001

LITWORK

For the Century's End: Poems 1990-1999
University of Washington Press.
ISBN-10: 0295981601, ISBN-13: 978-0295981604.
Poetry.

2010

LITWORK

Descent
Cavankerry.
ISBN-10: 193388018X, ISBN-13: 978-1933880181.
Essays, reviews, chronicles, memoirs, and poems.

2011

DEATH

John Haines died in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2011.

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