John Hall Wheelock Quotes
The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.
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| Birth: | 9th September, 1886 |
| Death: | 22nd March, 1978 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
John Hall Wheelock was born in New York, USA. He was an American poet. He graduated from Harvard University in 1908. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. As a student, he was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and published his first work, Verses by Two Undergraduates. For his work Poems Old and New he received the Ridgely Torrence Memorial Award in 1956, and the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award in 1957. In 1962, he won the Bollingen Prize. In 1972, he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Poetry Society of America for notable achievement in poetry. He wrote several poems include: The Beloved Adventure, The Black Panther, and In Love and Song. He was a member of the Poetry Society of America, and the Academy of American Poets.
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