Occupation Editor Name George Dillon | Genre Poetry Alma mater University of Chicago Role Editor | |
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Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1932)
1932 Guggenheim Fellowship Died May 9, 1968, Charleston, South Carolina, United States Education University of Chicago (1927) Books Vector 371 Success Secrets - 371 Most Asked Questions On Vector - What You Need To Know Awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Notable works The Flowering Stone | ||
George Hill Dillon (November 12, 1906 – May 9, 1968) was an American editor and poet. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida but he spent his childhood in Kentucky and the Mid-West. He graduated from The University of Chicago in 1927 with a degree in English. He was the editor for Poetry magazine from 1937 to 1949, during which time he also served in WWII as a member of the Signal Corps. Viewing, from the top of the Eiffel Tower, the German Army being driven from Paris, he signaled, in Morse, "Paris is Free".
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Though included in several contemporary anthologies, Dillon's works are largely out of print. Today he is perhaps best known as one of the many lovers of Edna St. Vincent Millay, whom he met in 1928 at The University of Chicago, where she was giving a reading. Dillon was the inspiration for Millay's epic 52-sonnet sequence Fatal Interview and they later collaborated on translations from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in 1936.