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James L. White

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born

March 26, 1936 in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States

died

July 01, 1981

gender

male

genre

Poetry

influences

James Wright, Robert Bly, Constantine P. Cavafy

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James L. White was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1936. At the age of sixteen, he began his training as a classical ballet dancer and was awarded a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater School. He danced for ten years in America and Germany. After his dance career, he attended universities in Indiana and Colorado, and then taught among Navajo tribes in New Mexico and Arizona. White came to Minnesota to develop a creative writing program for Chippewa children through the Minnesota Writers in the Schools Program. He was the author of four books of poetry: Divorce Proceedings (1972), A Crow's Story of Deer (1974), The Del Rio Hotel (1975), and The Salt Ecstasies (1982). In 1978, White was awarded the Bush Foundation Fellowship for Poet...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 63 ratings · 10 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White, Mark Doty (Introduction) 4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hunter's Moon by James L. White, Dalibor Talajic (Illustrator), Sebastian Cardoso (Illustrator) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Divorce Proceedings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	One Family? (Children of Man - Adam) One Faith? by James L. White, Trafford Publishing (Manufactured by) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Tin House 44: Summer Reading, Volume 11, Number 4 by Steven Millhauser, Fred G. Leebron, Daniel Handler 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Ray: A Tribute to the Movie, the Music, and the Man by Taylor Hackford, Jamie Foxx, James L. White 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating:

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