Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, on August 12, 1925. A graduate of the University of Miami, he attended the universities of North Carolina, Stanford, and Iowa. Justice’s books include
Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004);
New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995);
A Donald Justice Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (Middlebury College Press, 1991);
The Sunset Maker: Poems, Stories, a Memoir (Atheneum, 1987);
Selected Poems (Atheneum, 1979), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize;
Departures (Atheneum, 1973);
Night Light (Wesleyan University Press, 1967); and
The Summer Anniversaries (Wesleyan University Press, 1960), which was the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Poetry Selection in 1959. (
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