Dugan, Alan. - Social Networks and Archival Context (original) (raw)

Alan Dugan (1923-2003), award-winning poet and educator, was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his childhood in Queens. Dugan was drafted into the Air Force during World War II and served as a mechanic for B-52s in the Pacific theater. After the war, Dugan enrolled in Olivet College in Manhattan where he met his future wife, artist Judith Shahn. Eventually, Dugan and Shahn dropped out of Olivet in protest of the firing of a professor and moved to Mexico City. Dugan graduated from Mexico City College with a Bachelor's degree in English in 1951 and the couple returned to Manhattan. They were married in 1956. Dugan published several volumes of poetry, including General Prothalamion in Populous Times (1961), Poems (1961), Poems 2 (1963), Poems 3 (1967), Poems 4 (1974), Sequence (1976), New and Collected Poems, 1961-1983 (1983), Ten Years of Poems (1987), Poems 6 (1989), and Poems 7 (2001). Poems, his first commercially published collection, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1962. His final collection, Poems 7, also won the National Book Award. Dugan taught at various universities throughout his life, including Sarah Lawrence College, Connecticut College, Western Washington State College, the University of Arkansas, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Colorado. He died of pneumonia in 2003 in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

From the description of Alan Dugan papers, 1861-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 759928044

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