Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1916, June 24 | Born, Boston, Mass. |
1933-1935 | Attended Bates College, Lewiston, Maine |
1935-1938 | Attended Tufts University, Medford, Mass., receiving B.A. in 1938 |
1938-1939 | Attended University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., receiving M.A. in English in 1939 |
1939 | Avery Hopwood Award for poetry |
1940 | Published Homeward to America (New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Co. 62 pp.) |
1940-1942 | Instructor in English, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo. |
1942-1945 | United States Army Air Corps |
1945 | Eunice Tietjens Award for poetry |
1945-1946 | Instructor in English, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo. |
1946 | Married Myra Judith Hostetter |
1946-1953 | Instructor and assistant professor, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. |
1947-1955 | Lecturer in poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Ripton, Vt. |
1949-1955 | Poetry editor, Twayne Publishers |
1954 | Published translation of Inferno by Dante Alighieri (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 288 pp.) |
1953-1961 | Associate professor and professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. |
1955 | Published As If: Poems New and Selected (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 143 pp.) |
1955-1972 | Director, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Ripton, Vt. |
1956-1972 | Poetry editor, Saturday Review |
1956 | Prix de Rome, American Academy of Arts and Letters |
1959 | Published The Reason for the Pelican (Philadelphia, Pa.: J.B. Lippincott. 63 pp.) |
1960 | D. Litt., Tufts University, Medford, Mass. |
1961 | Published translation of Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri (New York, N.Y.: New American Library. 350 pp.) Published I Met a Man (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin. 74 pp.) |
1963 | Published Dialogue with an Audience (Philadelphia, Pa.: J.B. Lippincott. 316 pp.) |
1964 | Published Person to Person (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 83 pp.) |
1966 | Published The Monster Den (Philadelphia, Pa.: J.B. Lippincott. 62 pp.) |
1970 | Published translation of Paradiso by Dante Alighieri (New York, N.Y.: New American Library. 367 pp.) |
1971 | Published Lives of X (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 118 pp.) Published Manner of Speaking (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 118 pp.) |
1978 | Published Limericks, Too Gross with Isaac Asimov (New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton. 101 pp.) |
1980 | Published A Browser's Dictionary (New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row. 429 pp.) |
1981 | Published A Grossery of Limericks with Isaac Asimov (New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton. 101 pp.) |
1983 | Published A Second Browser's Dictionary (New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row. 329 pp.) |
1986, Mar. 30 | Died, Edison, N.J. |
1987 | Posthumous publication of Good Words to You (New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row. 343 pp.) |
1997 | Posthumous publication of Collected Poems of John Ciardi edited by Edward M. Cifelli (Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press. 618 pp.) |