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William Matthews

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Born: November 10 1942

Died: 1111 11 19971997

William Matthews was an American poet and essayist.

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews attended Berkshire School and later earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University as well as a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's Emerson College, Matthews held various academic positions at institutions including Cornell University, the University of Washington at Seattle, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Iowa. He served as president of Associated Writing Programs and of the Poetry Society of America. At the time of his death he was a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at City College of New York. A reading series has been named for him at City College of New York

During his 27 years as an author, Matthews received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1980, Matthews was the poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, and in 1997 he was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Matthews published 11 books of poetry, including Time & Money which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996 and was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist. Two posthumous collections have been released: Search Party: Collected Poems and After All: Last Poems.

Matthews believed that poetry should have subject matter, so as to provide the substance needed for the art to fulfill its function.

Williams died of a heart attack, the day after his 55th birthday.

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William Matthews

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Books from William Matthews

Search Party: Collected Poems

The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography

Time & Money

The Shorter Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. IV: 1663

After All: Last Poems

Selected Poems and Translations: 1969-1991

Ruining the New Road

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume I – 1660

Foreseeable Futures: Poems

Sleek For the Long Flight

The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews

Blues If You Want: Poems

New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews

American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. Volume 2 Diaries written from 1845 to 1980

British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published or Written before 1951

After All: Last Poems

Flood

Colo-Rectal Surgery Board Review (Board Review in Colo-rectal Surgery Book 1)

William Matthews: Working the west