14 Facts About Stephen Dunn

Stephen Elliot Dunn was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry.

Stephen Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2000 collection, Different Hours, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Stephen Dunn won three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship.

Stephen Dunn attended Forest Hills High School, where he played basketball.

Stephen Dunn was nicknamed "Radar" for his ability to make jump shots.

Stephen Dunn graduated from Hofstra University in 1962 and went on to play one season for the Williamsport Billies of the Eastern Basketball Association.

Stephen Dunn then worked in advertising until he was 26, when he traveled to Spain to pen a novel, which he ended up discarding.

Stephen Dunn subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at Syracuse University, obtaining a master's degree in creative writing in 1970.

Stephen Dunn began teaching at Stockton University in 1974 and published his first full-length collection entitled Looking for Holes in the Ceiling that same year.

Stephen Dunn continued working at Stockton for approximately three decades, and taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University.

Stephen Dunn finished his last book, The Not Yet Fallen World, shortly before his death.

Stephen Dunn later resided at homes in Ocean City, New Jersey, as well as Hurd's hometown of Frostburg, Maryland.

Stephen Dunn died on the night of his 82nd birthday at his home in Frostburg.

Stephen Dunn suffered from Parkinson's disease prior to his death.