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Born: 09/20/1928  New Haven
Parents: Donald Andrew (a business man) and Lucy Hall
Spouse: Kirby Thompson (1st) and Jane Kenyon (2nd)
Children: Andrew, Philippa
Address(es):
Permanent:
Eagle Pond Farm
Danbury, NH 03230
Contact Information:
Website: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/donald-hall
Website: http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.hall/1

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Essays After Eighty	Non Fiction	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	2014
	Christmas at Eagle Pond - Donald Hall, drawing on his own childhood memories to create an instant-classic Christmas story, gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond.	Historical Fiction	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	2012
	he back chamber : poems	Poetry	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	2011
	Unpacking the boxes : a memoir of a life in poetry	Non Fiction, Biography, Poetry	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin	2008
	Eagle Pond. Seasons at Eagle Pond; Here at Eagle Pond; Daylilies on the hill; News from Eagle Pond / Donald Hall - A collection of writings by America's poet laureate includes his essays on Eagle Pond Farm, including his observations on rural life in New Hampshire, the poem "Daylilies on the Hill," and several previously uncollected pieces.	Non Fiction, Biography, Poetry	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin	2007
	White Apples and the Taste of Stone : Poems, 1946-2006	Poetry	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co	2006
	The best day the worst day : life with Jane Kenyon	Biography, Poetry	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin	2005
	Painted Bed - A collection of poems explores the themes of love, death, and mourning, revisiting the author's childhood home and exploring his acceptance of a new life in old age.	Poetry	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin	2002
	Winter poems from Eagle Pond	Poetry	Adult, Children	San Antonio, TX : Wings Press	1999
	Without : poems - Written after Jane Kenyon died	Poetry	Adult	Boston, [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Co.	1998
	The Milkman's Boy - Tells the story of the Graves Family Dairy, whose three horses pulled the wagons delivering milk to families in the years before trucks and shopping centers replaced them.	Historical Fiction, Picture Book	Children	New York : Walker and Co.	1997
	Old Home Day - The story of the growth of a New Hampshire village from pre-history to the bicentennial celebration of its founding.	Historical Fiction, Picture Book	Children	San Diego : Browndeer Press	1996
	The Old Life	Poetry	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin	1996
	When Willard Met Babe Ruth	Fiction, Biography	Children	San Diego : Browndeer Press	1996
	Lucy's Summer	Historical Fiction, Picture Book	Children	San Diego : Harcourt Brace	1995
	I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat	Fiction, Picture Book	Children	New York : Dial Books	1994
	Lucy's Christmas	Historical Fiction	Children	San Diego : Browndeer Press	1994
	The Farm Summer 1942	Historical Fiction, Picture Book	Children	New York : Dial Books	1994
	Here at Eagle Pond	Non Fiction, Biography	Adult	New York : Ticknor & Fields	1990
	The Happy Man : poems	Poetry	Adult	New York : Random House	1987
	The Ideal Bakery : stories	Fiction, Short Stories	Adult	San Francisco : North Point Press	1987
	The Man Who Lived Alone - A man who had been unhappy as a child finds after he has grown up that he is happy living alone in his cabin in the New England woods.	Fiction	Children	Boston, Mass. : D.R. Godine	1984
	Ragged Mountain Elegies	Drama	Adult	Produced in Peterborough, NH	1983
	Ox-Cart Man - pictures by Barbara Cooney. Caldecott Award 1980	Historical Fiction, Picture Book	Children	New York : Viking Press	1979
	Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird ; Interviews, Esays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-1976	Poetry	Adult	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press	1978
	Riddle Rat	Fiction	Children	New York : F. Warne	1977
	Bread and Roses	Drama		Produced in Ann Arbor, MI	1975
	The Town of Hill	Poetry	Adult	Boston : D. R. Godine	1975
	The Yellow Room : Love Poems	Poetry	Adult	New York : Harper & Row	1971
	An Evening's Frost	Drama	Adult	First produced in Ann Arbor, MI; produced off-Broadway	1965
	A Roof of Tiger Lilies	Poetry	Adult	New York : Viking Press	1964
	Andrew and the Lion Farmer	Fiction, Picture Book	Children	New York, E.M. Hale	1959
	The Dark Houses	Poetry	Adult	New York, Viking Press	1958
	Exiles and Marriages	Poetry	Adult	New York, Viking Press	1955

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Name	Date
National Medal of Arts[	2010
United States Poet Laureate	2006-2007
L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Without: Poems	1999
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement.	1994
Honorary Doctor of Letters (in honoris causa) from Bates College.	1991
Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America	1990
Critics Circle Award for poetry for "The One Day"	1989
Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry for "The One Day"	1989
Leonara Marshall Prize	1987
Horn book Honor LIst for Oxford Books of chilren's Verse in America	1986
Poet Laureate of New Hampshire - Award recvd for following years: 1984-1989, 1995-	1984-1989
Sarah Josepha Hale Award	1983
New York Times Notable Children's Books citation for Ox-Cart Man	1979
Guggenheim Fellowship - Awarded: 1963-1964; 1972-73	1964-1973
Edna St. Vincent Millay Award, Poetry Society of America	1956
Lamont Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets - Now the James Laughlin Award, given in recognition of a poet's second published book.	1955
Newdigate Prize, Oxford University for poem "Exile" - awarded to students of the University of Oxford for the Best Composition in English verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years.	1952

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