David McCord
David McCord | |
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| Executive Director of the Harvard College Fund | |
| In office 1925–1963[1] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 15, 1897 New York City, US |
| Died | April 13, 1997 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | poet |
| Awards |
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David Thompson Watson McCord (November 15, 1897 in New York City – April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.
Life
[edit]He grew up in Portland, Oregon where he graduated from Lincoln High School, and earned three degrees from Harvard University.[2] His work appeared in Harper's.[3]
He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.[1]
Awards
[edit]- Golden Rose Award
- 1954 Guggenheim Fellow[4]
- 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
- 1977, the first national award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English
- Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College in Vermont
- Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London
Two collections of poems, The Star in the Pail and One at a Time were 1976 and 1978 finalists for the National Book Award, Children's Literature.[5]
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Oddly Enough. Washburn & Thomas. 1926.
- Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is. Illustrator Henry B. Kane. Little, Brown. 1952. ISBN 978-0-316-55502-9.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection. Doubleday. 1948.
- An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.
- Odds Without Ends. Little, Brown & Co. 1954.
- Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. ISBN 978-0-316-55509-8.
- Every Time I Climb A Tree. Little, Brown & Co. 1967.
- All Day Long. Bantam Books. 1971. ISBN 978-0-440-40376-0.
- The Star in the Pail. Little, Brown and Company. 1975. ISBN 0-316-55515-0.[5]
- One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1977. ISBN 9780316555166.[5]
- Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.
Essays
[edit]- The Camp at Lockjaw. Doubleday. 1952.
- In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-674-44701-1.
Editor
[edit]- David McCord, ed. (1945). What Cheer: An anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction. New York: Coward-McCann.
Appearances in others' anthologies
[edit]- Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1936). Modern American poetry: a critical anthology. Harcourt, Brace and company.
- David Lehman; John Brehm, eds. (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516251-6.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs. "David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99". www.news.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
- ^ wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 60/Oregon
- ^ Hartman, Lee Foster; Allen, Frederick Lewis (1953-01-01). Harper's Magazine. Harper & Brothers.
- ^ "All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
- ^ a b c "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
External links
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