David McCord

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Name David McCord Role Poet

Died April 13, 1997, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Children's Books People also search for Stow Wengenroth, James Rhyne Killian, Eva Moore Books Every Time I Climb a Tree, The Christmas Eve Myst, In honor of Nathan Marsh Pu, The Star in the Pail, One at a Time
Education Harvard University (1922)

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David Thompson Watson McCord (December 15, 1897 New York City – April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.

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Life

He grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. His work appeared in Harper's.

He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.

Awards

Golden Rose Award

1954 Guggenheim Fellow

1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant

1977, the first national award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English

Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College in Vermont

Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London

Two collections of poems, The Star in the Pail and One at a Time were 1976 and 1978 finalists for the National Book Award, Children's Literature.

Poems

A review of Cram & Ferguson's design for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company building in Boston's Back Bay upon its 1939 dedication:

Poetry

Oddly Enough. Washburn & Thomas. 1926.

Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is. Illustrator Henry B Kane. Little, Brown. 1952. ISBN 978-0-316-55502-9.

About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection. Doubleday. 1948.

An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.

Odds Without Ends. Little, Brown & Co. 1954.

Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. ISBN 978-0-316-55509-8.

Every Time I Climb A Tree. Little, Brown & Co. 1967.

All Day Long. Bantam Books. 1971. ISBN 978-0-440-40376-0.

The Star in the Pail. Little, Brown and Company. 1975. ISBN 0-316-55515-0.

One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1977.

Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.

Essays

In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-674-44701-1.

Editor

David Thompson Watson McCord, ed. (1955). What Cheer: an anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction. Modern Library.

Anthologies

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1936). Modern American poetry: a critical anthology. Harcourt, Brace and company.

David Lehman, John Brehm, eds. (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516251-6. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References

David McCord Wikipedia

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