Peter Wild
American historian and poet (1940–2009) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in Easthampton, Massachusetts.[1]: 5 Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany.[2] Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Irvine.[3][4] He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West.[5][6] His 1973 volume of poetry, Cochise, a eulogy to the Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader Cochise,[7] was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[8]
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Born | Peter T. Wild (1940-04-25)April 25, 1940 Northampton, Massachusetts, US |
Died | February 23, 2009(2009-02-23) (aged 68) Tucson, Arizona, US |
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Alma mater | University of Arizona (B.A. & M.A.), University of California, Irvine (M.F.A.) |
Period | 1969–2009 |
Genre | poetry, American history |
Subject | American Southwest |
Notable works | Cochise (1973) |
Notable awards | Writer's Digest prize, 1964 Ark River Review prize, 1972 nominated, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1973 |
Spouse | Sylvia Ortiz (1966–?), Rosemary Harrold (1981–?) |