William Carpenter (writer)
William Carpenter | |
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| Born | October 31, 1940 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, poet |
| Education | Dartmouth College (BA) University of Minnesota (PhD) |
| Genre | poetry fiction |
| Literary movement | College of the Atlantic |
| Notable awards | Associated Writing Program's Contemporary Poetry Award, 1980 Samuel French Morse Prize, 1985 National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1985 The New York Public Library “Books for the Teen Age,” 1995 |
| Spouse | Donna Gold |
| Children | Daniel = Matthew |
William Carpenter (born October 31, 1940) is the author of three books of poetry, The Hours of Morning, Poems 1976–1979 (University Press of Virginia, 1981), Rain (Northeastern University Press, 1985), Speaking Fire at Stones (Tilbury House, 1992), and (to date) three novels, A Keeper of Sheep (Milkweed Editions, 1996), The Wooden Nickel (Little, Brown & Co., 2002), and Silence (Islandport Press, 2021).