Ann Stanford | |
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| Born | (1916-11-25)November 25, 1916 La Habra, California, U.S. |
| Died | July 12, 1987(1987-07-12) (aged 70) |
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| Education | Stanford University University of California, Los Angeles (MA,PhD) |
| Notable awards | Shelley Memorial Award (1969) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
Ann Stanford (November 25, 1916 – July 12, 1987) was an American poet.
Ann Stanford was born inLa Habra, California, and attendedStanford University, where she graduated in 1938Phi Beta Kappa, and theUniversity of California, Los Angeles, with an M.A. in journalism in 1958, an M.A. in English in 1961, and a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1962.[1]
Stanford marriedRoland Arthur White, an architect, in 1942, and they had three daughters and one son. Her oldest daughter is Academy Award nominated costume designerRosanna Norton.[1]
When she died in 1987, at the age of seventy, Ann Stanford was at the apex of a long and distinguished career as a poet, translator, editor, scholar and teacher. Over a period of forty years, she had written eight volumes of poetry, two verse plays, and a book-length study of the Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet. She had also translated the classic Sanskrit textThe Bhagavad Gita and editedThe Women Poets in English, an anthology that gathered, for the first time, hundreds of years of poetry by women. Her poems had appeared regularly in the most prestigious journals and magazines—theNew Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The New Republic, The Southern Review—and had been widely honored.
From 1962 to 1987, she taught atCalifornia State University, Northridge.[2][3]
She was a founding member of theAssociated Writing Programs.[4] Since 1988, a poetry prize has been awarded in her name.[5][6]
