James McWilliams answers questions about Frank Stanford in a compelling, readable biography full of exquisite, yet not ...

She graduated from Columbia University and Hunter College, where she later held the prestigious post of Thomas Hunter Chair of Literature. She published a dozen books of poetry and 10 books of prose, ...

Frank Stanford, who killed himself at age 29, died far too young. Thanks to writer James McWilliams, the legendary Arkansas poet's short but colorful life is now documented in a monumental biography.

One critic called him "the Hank Williams of American poetry," which Miller Williams took to be the highest compliment. Miller Williams, a Hoxie native, was one of the most celebrated writers to come ...

One critic called him “the Hank Williams of American poetry,” which Miller Williams took to be the highest compliment ...

A lost anti-war poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which experts say will “rewrite” the romantic poet’s biography, is to go on display for the first time in two centuries after it was acquired by ...

The poem he would write about the events of that night is the subject of Ian Sansom’s September 1, 1939: A biography of a poem (Fourth Estate, £16.99).