Edward Charles "Ned" O'Gorman was an American poet and educator.
16 Facts About Ned O'Gorman
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Edward Charles O'Gorman was born on September 26,1929, in New York City.
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Ned O'Gorman's father was Samuel Franklin Engs O'Gorman and his mother, Annette de Bouthillier-Chavigny, a French aristocrat.
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Ned O'Gorman spent most of his early life in Southport, Connecticut, and Bradford, Vermont.
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Ned O'Gorman's poetry earned him Guggenheim Fellowships in 1956 and 1962.
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Ned O'Gorman won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1958 for his first collection of poems, The Night of the Hammer.
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From 1957 to 1960 Ned O'Gorman taught at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.
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Ned O'Gorman taught at Tougaloo College in Mississippi in 1965 and 1966.
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Ned O'Gorman later taught at Brooklyn College, The New School, and Manhattan College.
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Ned O'Gorman was the literary editor of the Catholic magazine Jubilee from 1962 to 1965.
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Ned O'Gorman was appointed by the US State Department to be the American studies specialist in Chile, Argentina and Brazil in 1965.
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In connection with the peace movement, Ned O'Gorman organized a poetry reading, called "Poets for Peace," at the Town Hall in New York City on November 12,1967, for the Compassionate Arts of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
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Ned O'Gorman later received the Rothko Chapel Award for Commitment to Truth and Freedom.
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The center, which Ned O'Gorman continued to direct, is located on West 129th Street in New York City.
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Ned O'Gorman wrote six books of poetry, five books of prose, and numerous articles and poetry published in various magazines.
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Ned O'Gorman died of pancreatic cancer at his Manhattan home on March 7,2014, at the age of eighty-four.