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Claire, William F. |
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Born Northampton, Ma. graduate of Deerfield Academy, Columbia University, and Georgetown University.
After military(Stars and Stripes in Asia) began career in public and private service in Washington, where simultaneously he became founding editor and publisher of Voyages; a literary magazine,
winner of five national awards, as well as a National Endowment for Arts award.
A poet and essayist, he has been a Yaddo and MacDowell fellow, and
a Rockefeller Foundation grant winner for residency in Bellagio, Italy.
His prose has appeared in well over 50 major publications ranging from The American Scholar and Antioch Review to the The Smithsonian Magazine and the New York Times. His poetry has been
recently published currently available only from amazon.com, titled Poems.A Collection.
He founded a city-wide festival in honor of Georges Simenon at the Kennedy Center, the National Press Club and other venues in DC. He coordinated six evenings at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and recorded poems for the Library of Congress archives.
He lives in Lewes, Delaware, and Naples, Florida and owns an antiquarian art and book business. |
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