Stephen Dunn

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Stephen Dunn
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Stephen Dunn at the 2012 National Book Festival
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Forest Hills, Queens, New York, U.S.
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Frostburg, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationProfessor and poet
EducationHofstra University (BA)
Syracuse University (MFA)
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry;
Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

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Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939 – June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2000 collection, Different Hours, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1][2] He also won three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship,[3] and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship.[4]

Early life

Dunn was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York on June 24, 1939.[5] His parents were Ellen (Fleishman) and Charles Dunn.[6] He attended Forest Hills High School, where he played basketball. After graduating in 1957, he studied history at Hofstra University. He played guard for its basketball team and was part of the squad that had a 23–1 record during the 1959–60 season.[7] He was nicknamed "Radar" for his ability to make jump shots.[1]

Dunn graduated from Hofstra University in 1962 and went on to play one season for the Williamsport Billies of the Eastern Basketball Association.[8] He then worked in advertising until he was 26, when he traveled to Spain to pen a novel, which he ended up discarding. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at Syracuse University, obtaining a master's degree in creative writing in 1970.[9]

Career

Dunn began teaching at Stockton University in 1974 and published his first full-length collection entitled Looking for Holes in the Ceiling that same year.[7] He continued working at Stockton for approximately three decades,[7] and also taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University.[10]

A collection of essays about Dunn's poetry was published in 2013.[11] He finished his last book, The Not Yet Fallen World, shortly before his death.[1] Dunn thought it was the best work he had written.[1] It was published in May 2022, nearly a year after he died,[12]

Personal life

Dunn married his first wife, Lois Kelly, in 1964. Together, they had two children: Susanne and Andrea. They divorced in 2001. He married Barbara Hurd the following year.[7]

Dunn had earlier lived in Port Republic, New Jersey. He later resided at homes in Ocean City, New Jersey, as well as Hurd's hometown of Frostburg, Maryland.[13] He died on the night of his 82nd birthday at his home in Frostburg.[12] He suffered from Parkinson's disease prior to his death.[7][1]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

Collections

Selected list of poems

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Ref
Ambush at five o'clock 2014 Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ambush at five o'clock". The New Yorker. 89 (47): 50–51. February 3, 2014. Template:Screen reader-only
Salvation 2005 Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Salvation". Poetry. November 1, 2005. Template:Screen reader-only
Whereas the animal I cannot help but be 2015 Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Whereas the animal I cannot help but be". The New Yorker. 90 (47): 33. February 9, 2015. Template:Screen reader-only
Charlotte Bronte in Leeds Point 2003 [7]
The Routine Things Around the House 2006 [7]
The Kiss 2007 [7]
Here and Now 2011 [7]
Mrs. Cavendish and the Dancer 2014 [7]
Glimpses 2018 [7]

Non fiction

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.MacWilliams, Bryon (June 25, 2021). "Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Finzel resident Stephen Dunn dies at 82". Cumberland Times-News. Archived from the original on June 25, 2021. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stephen Dunn: Influences". Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stephen Dunn - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Retrieved September 27, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Reading and Lecture by Stephen Dunn". Archived from the original on April 28, 2012.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gale, Cengage Learning (2016). A Study Guide for Stephen Dunn's "The Reverse Side". Gale, Cengage Learning. ISBN 9781410356642. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Genzlinger, Neil (June 25, 2021). "Stephen Dunn, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 82". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Genzlinger, Neil (June 25, 2021). "Stephen Dunn, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Greenberg, Ginny (June 25, 2021). "Remembering Stephen Dunn". Hofstra University. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gadoua, Renée K. (November 6, 2013). "Stephen Dunn Is Next Carver Speaker". SU News. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stephen Dunn". faculty.asd.wednet.edu.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCullough, Laura, ed. (December 15, 2013). The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0815633358.
  12. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barlow, Bill (June 25, 2021). "Stockton University, friends and family mourn death of Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer winner and retired professor". The Press of Atlantic City. Archived from the original on June 25, 2021. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  13. ^ Strauss, Robert. "Ode to Joi(sey)", The New York Times, April 27, 2003. Accessed October 9, 2007. "Mr. Dunn, who used to live in Port Republic, a remote town in the interior of South Jersey, now divides his time between Ocean City and his wife's hometown, Frostburg, Md."

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