David Russell Wagoner was an American poet, novelist, and educator.
12 Facts About David Wagoner
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David Russell Wagoner was born on June 5,1926, in Massillon, Ohio.
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David Wagoner received a Master of Arts in English from the Indiana University Bloomington in 1949 and had a long association with the University of Washington where he taught, beginning in 1954, on the suggestion of friend and fellow poet Theodore Roethke.
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David Wagoner was editor of Poetry Northwest from 1966 to 2002.
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David Wagoner was elected chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1978 and served in that capacity until 1999.
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David Wagoner was Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, but after his retirement from full-time university teaching, David Wagoner continued to lecture and teach in various workshop and low-residency writing programs, including the Hugo House and the MFA program of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island.
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David Wagoner's Collected Poems was nominated for the National Book Award in 1977 and he won the Pushcart Prize that same year.
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David Wagoner was again nominated for a National Book Award in 1979 for In Broken Country.
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David Wagoner is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the English-Speaking Union prize from Poetry magazine, and the Arthur Rense Prize in 2011.
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David Wagoner has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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David Wagoner died in his sleep at a nursing home in Edmonds, Washington, on December 18,2021, at the age of 95.
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David Wagoner was survived by his wife, Robin Seyfried, and their two daughters.