David McCord
David Thompson Watson McCord (December 15, 1897 New York City – April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.
Life[]
He grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. His work appeared in Harper's.[1]
He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.[2]
Awards[]
- Golden Rose Award
- 1954 Guggenheim Fellow[3]
- 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.[4]
Works[]
Poetry[]
- Oddly Enough. Washburn & Thomas. 1926.
- Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is. Illustrator Henry B Kane. Little, Brown. 1952. ISBN 978-0-316-55502-9.CS1 maint: others (link)
- About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection. Doubleday. 1948.
- An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.
- Odds Without Ends. Little, Brown & Co. 1954.
- Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. ISBN 978-0-316-55509-8.
- Every Time I Climb A Tree. Little, Brown & Co. 1967.
- All Day Long. Bantam Books. 1971. ISBN 978-0-440-40376-0.
- The Star in the Pail. Little, Brown and Company. 1975. ISBN 0-316-55515-0.[4]
- One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1977.[4]
- Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.
Essays[]
- The Camp at Lockjaw. Doubleday. 1952.
- In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-674-44701-1.
Editor[]
- David Thompson Watson McCord, ed. (1955). What Cheer: an anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction. Modern Library.
Anthologies[]
- Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1936). Modern American poetry: a critical anthology. Harcourt, Brace and company.
- David Lehman; John Brehm, eds. (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516251-6.
References[]
- ^ Hartman, Lee Foster; Allen, Frederick Lewis (1953-01-01). Harper's Magazine. Harper & Brothers.
- ^ Affairs, Harvard Office of News and Public. "David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99". www.news.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
External links[]
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Categories:
- American male poets
- Harvard University alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- Writers from Portland, Oregon
- 1897 births
- 1997 deaths
- Poets from Oregon
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American male writers