1. Donald Rodney Justice was an American poet and teacher of creative writing who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.
13 Facts About Donald Justice
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Donald Justice attended the University of Miami, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1945.
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Donald Justice received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1947, studied for a time at Stanford University, and earned a doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1954.
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Donald Justice taught at Syracuse University, the University of California at Irvine, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Florida in Gainesville.
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Donald Justice was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1991, and the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1996.
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Donald Justice's honors included grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Donald Justice was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.
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Donald Justice's Collected Poems was nominated for the National Book Award in 2004.
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Donald Justice was a National Book Award Finalist three times, in 1961,1974, and 1995.
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Donald Justice died August 6,2004, at an Iowa City, Iowa nursing home.
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Donald Justice had been in a nursing home after suffering a stroke several weeks before his death.
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Donald Justice's family said the immediate cause of death was pneumonia, but that he had Parkinson's disease.
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Donald Justice edited posthumous selections of unpublished poetry for four poets: Weldon Kees, Henri Coulette, Raeburn Miller, and Joe Bolton.