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John Ciardi

John Ciardi

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Born June 24, 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Died March 30, 1986

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Poet John Anthony Ciardi was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 24, 1916. He graduated from Tufts University (then called Tufts College) in 1938 and got his M.A. from the University of Michigan the next year. His first volume of poetry, "Homeward to America", was published in 1940, to critical acclaim. He was an English instructor at the University of Kansas City from 1940-42, when he left to join the US Army Air Force during World War II. After the war's end he returned to his teaching job, but in 1946 he moved back to Boston and taught at Harvard University. He joined the faculty of Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1953, becoming a Professor of English there in 1956.

In addition to his volumes of poetry he also wrote poems and verse for children, in addition to translating "The Inferno" of Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy". In 1956 he became poetry editor of The Saturday Review. He left his position at Rutgers in 1961 to pursue his writing career full time.

Be died of a heart attack in Edison, New Jersey, on March 30, 1986.

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Bicentennial Minutes TV Series1974Self - Narrator

NET Festival TV Series1967Self

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Accent on an American Summer TV Series1962Self - Host

The Ben Hecht Show TV Series1958Self - professor at Rutgers University

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