- George Dillon
George Hill Dillon (
November 12 ,1906 –May 9 ,1968 ) was an American editor and poet. He was born inJacksonville, Florida but he spent his childhood inKentucky and the Mid-West. He graduated fromThe University of Chicago in 1927 with a degree in English. His "The Flowering Stone" won the 1932Pulitzer Prize for Poetry . He was the editor forPoetry Magazine from 1937 to 1949, during which time he also served in WWII.Though included in several contemporary anthologies, Dillon's works are largely out of print. Today he is 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.ources
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External links
* [http://www.pulitzer.org/index.html Official Pulitzer Prize Website]
* [http://www.poetrymagazine.org/about/history.html History of "Poetry" Magazine]
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