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Woods, John, 1926-

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  • Existence: 1926 - 1995

biographical statement

John Warren Woods (1926-1995) is the author of over a dozen collections of poetry including The Deaths at Paragon, Indiana (Indiana University Press, 1955), Turning to Look Back: Poems 1955-1970 (Indiana University Press, 1972) and Black Marigolds (University Press of Florida, 1994). He was born in Martinsville, IN in 1926 and died in 1995. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1944 to 1946 and earned his B.S. from Indiana University in 1949, as well his M.A., in 1954. He did additional graduate study at the University of Iowa between 1957 and 1958. In 1955, he joined the faculty of the Department of English at Western Michigan University and worked there until his retirement in 1992. Over the course of his career, he received the Theodore Roethke Award from Poetry Northwest, Publication Award from the National Endowment of the Arts,  Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award from Western Michigan University, Distinguished Michigan Artist Award, Michigan Individual Artist Grant and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship.

Citation:
"John Woods." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Literature Resources Center. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.

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