Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic.
14 Facts About Daniel Hoffman
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Daniel Hoffman was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.
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Daniel Hoffman was a member of the Boar's Head Society there.
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In 1954, Hoffman published his first collection of poetry, An Armada of Thirty Whales.
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Daniel Hoffman taught at Columbia University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Daniel Hoffman retired from the latter as Felix Schelling Professor of English Emeritus, and its Philomathean Society in 1996 published an anthology of poetry in honor of his efforts to bring contemporary poets to give readings in their halls.
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Daniel Hoffman was a chancellor emeritus of the Academy of American Poets.
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Daniel Hoffman won the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry from The Sewanee Review in 2003.
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Daniel Hoffman won the 2005 Arthur Rense Poetry Prize "for an exceptional poet" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Daniel Hoffman received an honorary degree from Swarthmore College in 2005.
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Daniel Hoffman was married for 57 years to Elizabeth McFarland, a poet herself as well as the poetry editor of Ladies' Home Journal, from 1948 until that magazine stopped publishing verse in 1961.
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Daniel Hoffman was one of Philadelphia's Franklin Inn Club notable members.
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Daniel Hoffman was one of the named plaintiffs in "Authors Guild vs Google", the purpose of which was to prevent Google from providing a complete searchable index of extant books.
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Daniel Hoffman died in an assisted living facility in Haverford, Pennsylvania, on March 30,2013.