Reed Whittemore

Reed Whittemore
BornEdward Reed Whittemore, Jr.
(1919-09-11)September 11, 1919
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedApril 6, 2012(2012-04-06) (aged 92)
Kensington, Maryland, U.S.
EducationYale University (BA)

Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. (September 11, 1919 April 6, 2012) was an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964, and in 1984.