Donald Hall

Donald Hall (1928 – 2018) was the author of over twenty books of poetry, including The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin, 2015), White Apples and the Taste of Stone (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) and The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). He also authored criticism, textbooks, sports journalism, memoirs, biographies, children’s books, and plays. His awards include the Lamont Poetry Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, and the Frost Medal. He was the US Poet Laureate in 2006 and received the National Medal of Arts in 2010.