Donald Hall
Author · 51 books
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 Hampshire from 1984 to 1989. In December 1993 he and his wife poet Jane Kenyon were the subject of an Emmy Award-winning Bill Moyers documentary, "A Life Together." In the June 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress' fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Series
Books
Writing Well
1973
The Back Chamber
2011
A Writer's Reader
1979
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America
1985
The Best Day the Worst Day
Life with Jane Kenyon
2005
When Willard Met Babe Ruth
1996
Willow Temple
New and Selected Stories
2003
Kicking the Leaves
1976
Essays After Eighty
2014
I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat
1994
The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
2015
Life Work
1993
Old Home Day
1996
Without
Poems
1998
Lucy's Christmas
1994
White Apples and the Taste of Stone
Selected Poems 1946-2006
2006
Remembering poets
1978
The Contemporary Essay
1989
The Museum Of Clear Ideas
1993
Donald Hall
Prose & Poetry
1997
The Best American Poetry 1989
1989
The Man Who Lived Alone
1984
Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball
1976
Seasons at Eagle Pond
1987
Eagle Pond
2007
Ox-Cart Man
1979
Christmas At Eagle Pond
2017
The Milkman's Boy
1997
The Ideal Bakery
1987
The Farm Summer 1942
1994
To Read Literature
1981
To Read a Poem
1992
The Happy Man
1986
The Painted Bed
Poems
2002
Unpacking the Boxes
A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
2008
Claims for Poetry
1983
Lucy's Summer
1995
Principal Products of Portugal
1995
The Old Life
1996
Their Ancient Glittering Eyes
1992
Good Poems for Hard Times
2005
Old Poets
Reminiscences and Opinions
2021
A Carnival Of Losses
Notes Nearing Ninety
2018
The One Day
1988
Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird
Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76
1978
Breakfast Served Any Time All Day
Essays on Poetry New and Selected
2003
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
Essays on Sport
1984
Poetry and Ambition
Essays 1982-88
1988
Old And New Poems
1990
Here At Eagle Pond
1990
String Too Short to Be Saved
1980
