David McCord
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Life
He grew up in Portland, Oregon where he graduated from Lincoln High School, and earned three degrees from Harvard University.[1] His work appeared in Harper's.[2]
He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.[3]
Awards
- Golden Rose Award
- 1954 Guggenheim Fellow[4]
- 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
- 1977, the first national award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English
- Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College in Vermont
- Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London
Two collections of poems, The Star in the Pail and One at a Time were 1976 and 1978 finalists for the National Book Award, Children's Literature.[5]
Works
Poetry
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Essays
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Editor
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Appearances in others' anthologies
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References
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- ↑ wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 60/Oregon
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- ↑ a b c "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
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External links
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- "PERSPECTIVES: David McCord", Boston, Massachusetts, David A. Dillon
- http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07a/alumni.html
- http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07/mccordiana
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