Donald Hall

Donald Hall’s Followers (173)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Donald Hall


Born
in New Haven, Connecticut, The United States
September 20, 1928

Died
June 24, 2018


Donald Hall was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. Donald Hall published numerous books of poetry. Besides poetry, Donald Hall wrote books on baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore. He was also the author of children's books. Hall edited more than two dozen textbooks and anthologies. His honors include two Guggenheim fellowships, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, a Lifetime Achievement award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. Hall also served as Poet Laureate of New Ham ...more

Average rating: 4.12 · 32,286 ratings · 2,719 reviews · 237 distinct worksSimilar authors
Ox-Cart Man

by
4.07 avg rating — 14,936 ratings — published 1979 — 35 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Without: Poems

4.33 avg rating — 1,676 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Essays After Eighty

4.13 avg rating — 1,520 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Best Day the Worst Day:...

4.19 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Carnival of Losses: Notes...

3.99 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Life Work

4.10 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
White Apples and the Taste ...

4.19 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
String Too Short to Be Save...

by
4.22 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Unpacking the Boxes: A Memo...

3.80 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Painted Bed: Poems

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 333 ratings10 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Donald Hall…
Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbir... The Weather for Poetry: Ess... Poetry and Ambition: Essays... Death to the Death of Poetr...
(132 books)
by
4.19 avg rating — 3,325 ratings

Lucy's Christmas Lucy's Summer
(2 books)
by
3.94 avg rating — 186 ratings

Quotes by Donald Hall  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“You think that their
dying is the worst
thing that could happen.

Then they stay dead.”
Donald Hall

“I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine”
Donald Hall

“I want to sleep like the birds
then wake to write you again
without hope that you read me.”
Donald Hall

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Book Haven: Mawgojzeta's 100 in 2011 28 128 Sep 08, 2011 09:20AM  
MCC Children's Li...: Picture books 1 1 Feb 11, 2012 09:16PM  
Reading with Style: This topic has been closed to new comments. Winter 14/15 RwS Completed Tasks - Winter 14/15 932 128 Mar 01, 2015 01:36PM  
2023 Reading Chal...: Melissa's 200+ Books challenge 14 86 Dec 07, 2015 05:14PM  
Nothing But Readi...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Level 2 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2015 158 658 Jan 11, 2016 05:46AM  
The History Book ...: JIMMY'S (from Chichester) 50 BOOKS READ IN 2015 149 157 Mar 09, 2016 01:29PM