“It’s all right there, all the wonder of another person’s life and talent and time, waiting in a book. It is a tremendous inheritance for all of us.”
Donald Hall Jr.
Donald Hall Jr. was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, and essays, including 22 volumes of verse. Early in his career, Hall became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft. In June 2006, Hall was appointed as the Library of Congress’s 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. He is regarded as a "plainspoken, rural poet," and it has been said that, in his work, he "explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects [an] abiding reverence for nature." Hall was respected for his work as an academic, having taught at Stanford University, Bennington College, and the University of Michigan, and having made significant contributions to the study and craft of writing. Hall passed away in 2018.
