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John Meade Haines

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Born: December 31 1923

Died: 0101 03 20112011

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1924, John Haines studied at the National Art School, the American University, and the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art. The author of more than ten collections of poetry, his recent works include At the End of This Summer: Poems 1948-1954 ; The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer ; and New Poems 1980-88 , for which he received both the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Western States Book Award.

He has also published a book of essays entitled Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays , and a memoir, The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-five Years in the Northern Wilderness .

Haines spent more than twenty years homesteading in Alaska, and has taught at Ohio University, George Washington University, and the University of Cincinnati. Named a Fellow by The Academy of American Poets in 1997, his other honours include the Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, two Guggenheim Fellowships, an Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Congress. John Haines lives in Helena, Montana.
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John Meade Haines

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Books from John Meade Haines

The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems

Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place

At the End of this Summer: Poems, 1948-1953

Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays

For the Century's End: Poems 1990-1999

New Poems: 1980-88

The Stars, the Snow, the Fire

Minus 31 & the Wind Blowing: 9 Reflections about Living on Land

The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness

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