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Winterset Rothberg

Born: 05/25/1908   Saginaw , MI
Died: 08/02/1963
Parents: Otto Theodore Roethke, Helen Marie Roethke
Spouse: Beatrice Heath O'Connell
Address(es):
Interred: Oakwood Cemetery
Saginaw Twp. , MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Roethke songs : High Voice and Piano
- Andrew Imbrie 		Poetry Adult Glendale, NY: C. F. Peters Corp 1990
Two Songs : Baritone Voice and Piano
- Dennis Riley 		Poetry Adult Glendale, NY: C. F. Peters Corp 1988
Dirty Dinky and Other Creatures: Poems for Children Poetry Children Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1973
Straw for the Fire, from the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63
- Edited by David Wagoner 		Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1972
Theodore Roethke : Selected Poems
- Selected by his wife, Beatrice Roethke 		Poetry Adult London: Faber and Faber 1969
Selected Letters
- Edited by Ralph J. Mills, Jr. 		Non Fiction Adult Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press 1968
Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1966
The Achievement of Theodore Roethke; a Comprehensive Selection of His Poems Poetry Adult Scott, Foresman 1966
On the Poet and His Craft; Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke
- Editor Ralph J. Mills, Jr. 		Poetry Adult Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press 1965
Far Field
- Published posthumously 		Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1964
Party at the Zoo Poetry Children Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1963
Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical, Poems Poetry Stonewall Press 1963
I Am! Says the Lamb Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1961
Words for the Wind
- Recipient of: Bollingen Prize, National Book Award, Longview Foundation Award, Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize and Pacific Northwest Writer's Award 		Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1958
The Waking: Poems, 1933-1953
- Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1954 		Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1954
Praise to the End! Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1951
The Lost Son and Other Poems Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1948
Open House
- First book of poetry published 		Poetry Adult New York: Alfred Knopf 1941
Other works:
- His work has appeared in many foreign languages, and in sound recordings. See MeLCat links. 		Poetry
What is the aim or goal of your writing: Mr. Roethke wrote of his early years:-"I grew up in and around a beautiful greenhouse owned by my father and uncle." " I have lived very quietly and then foolishly and violently." He appreciated the approval of his students at Bennington and desired to hold the regard of "the man in the street".

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Awards:

Name Date
Shelley Award Winner 1962
Honorary Doctorate of Letters Degree, University of Michigan 1962
Edna St. Vincent Millay Award
- for Words for the Wind. 		1959
Bollingen Award
- for Words for the Wind. 		1959
Longview Award
- for Words for the Wind. 		1959
Pacific Northwest Writers Award
- for Words for the Wind. 		1959
National Book Award in poetry
- for "Words for the Wind" 		1959
Borestone Mountain Awards 1958
Fulbright Grant 1955
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1954 for "The Waking" 1954
Ford Foundation Fellowship 1952
The National Institute of Arts & Letters Grant 1952
Levinson Prize (Poetry Magazine) 1951
Eunice Tietjens Prize 1947
Guggenheim Fellowship
- Award received for following years: 1945, 1950 		1945
Honorary Membership in the International Mark Twain Society.

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Literary Luminaries from Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden by Anna Clark, The History Press, 2015 2015
Ink Trails: Michigan's Famous and Forgotten Authors by Dave and Jack Dempsey 2012
Michigan Authors, 3rd ed. 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed. 1980
Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume(s) 5, 206
- Vol. 5: American Poets Since World War II (2 parts),Gale Research, Inc., 1980. Vol. 206: Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, First Series, Gale Research, Inc., 1999 		1980 -1999
Contemporary Authors
-  Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 81-84 Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series, volume(s) 2 		1979
Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 1, 3, 8, 11, 19, 46, 101 		1973 -1998
Michigan Poets 1964
American Authors and Books
American Writers
Childhood in Poetry
- The Childhood in Poetry Collection is part of The John MacKay Shaw Collection housed at Florida State University Library and consists of books, works of art, manuscripts, catalogs and ephemera related to childhood. The collection includes bibliographies, biographies, literature, poetry, and criticism.
Contemporary Poets
Dictionary of Literature in the English Language
Reader's Adviser
Reader's Encyclopedia
Twentieth Century Authors
Who Was Who in America
Who's Who in Twentieth Century Literature

Memberships:

Name Date
Phi Beta Kappa

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Arts (M.A.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1936
Graduate Studies Harvard University Cambridge , MA 1930 -1931
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1929

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Fulbright Lecturer
- Conducted Reading Tours 		Italy 1955 -1956
Professor of English
- Poet in Residence, 1962 		University of Washington Seattle 1947 -1962
Assistant Professor of English Bennington College Bennington 1943 -1946
Professor of English
- Varsity Tennis Coach 1936-1943,1947 		Pennsylvania State University University Park 1936 -1943
Instructor in English Michigan State College East Lansing , MI 1935
Instructor, English Department
- Director of Public Relations, 1934-35, Also Tennis Coach 		Lafayette College Easton 1931 -1935
- Worked in a pickle factory several seasons, college tennis coach.

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
http://elibrary.mel.org/search/X?SEARCH=Theodore+Roethke+&searchscope=15&l=&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D

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