Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Johnson, Halvard
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Johnson, Halvard, 1936-
Other form(s) of name
- Halvard Johnson
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Description area
Dates of existence
1936-
History
Poet Halvard Johnson was born in Newburgh, New York, and spent his boyhood in both in small Hudson Valley towns and New York. He spent his years after college in Ohio hitchhiking around the United States in the late 1950's. After graduate study in English at University of Chicago, he began teaching at the University of Texas, El Paso for four years. Near the end of his time in Texas, he sent Merton some poems for «Monks Pond». After this, he taught in Puerto Rico, traveled Europe, and now has returned to his native New York where he writes and teaches at the New School. A number of his books of poetry have been published. (Source: Monks Pond, pp. 109 and 207.)