Editing Richard Wilbur (section)

==Early years==
Wilbur was born in [[New York City]] on March 1, 1921, and grew up in [[North Caldwell, New Jersey]].<ref name=nytobit/> In 1938 he graduated from [[Montclair High School (New Jersey)|Montclair High School]], where he worked on the school newspaper.<ref>[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/richard-purdy-wilbur-dlb/ Richard (Purdy) Wilbur], from the ''[[Dictionary of Literary Biography]]''. Accessed January 1, 2012. "Wilbur showed an early interest in writing, which he has attributed to his mother's family because her father was an editor of the Baltimore Sun and her grandfather was an editor and a publisher of small papers aligned with the Democratic party. At Montclair High School, from which he graduated in 1938, Wilbur wrote editorials for the school newspaper."</ref> At [[Amherst College]], he also displayed his "ample literary gifts" as one of the "sharpest" reporters for the college newspaper, edited by upperclassman [[Robert Morgenthau]].<ref name="Meier">{{cite book |last1=Meier |first1=Andrew |title=Morgenthau |date=October 2022 |publisher=Random House |isbn=9781400068852 |pages=276, 299 |edition=First}}</ref> After graduation in 1942, he served in the [[United States Army]] from 1943 to 1945 during [[World War II]]. He attended graduate school at [[Harvard University]]. Wilbur taught at [[Wellesley College]], then [[Wesleyan University]] for two decades and at [[Smith College]] for another decade. At Wesleyan he was instrumental in founding the award-winning poetry series of the [[Wesleyan University Press]].<ref>{{citation | publisher =[[University of Illinois]] | url =http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/bio.htm | title =Wilbur biography | access-date =May 9, 2009 | archive-date =July 20, 2019 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190720100402/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/bio.htm | url-status =dead }}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{citation |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | access-date = July 18, 2011 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E2D6143FF935A25753C1A9639C8B63&sel=&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=The University of Verse | first = Jane | last = Gordon | date = October 16, 2005}}</ref> He received two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and taught at Amherst College as late as 2009,<ref>{{citation | chapter-url = https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/rpwilbur42 | publisher =[[Amherst College]] | chapter = Wilbur | title = Faculty staff}}.</ref> where he also served on the editorial board of the literary magazine ''[[The Common (magazine)|The Common]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecommononline.org/about|title=About The Common – The Common|website=www.thecommononline.org|date=July 15, 2016}}</ref><ref name="NYT"/><ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/obituaries/richard-wilbur-poet-laureate-and-pulitzer-winner-dies-at-96.html |title=Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Winner, Dies at 96 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 16, 2017 |access-date=October 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | first=Mark | last = Ferney | url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2017/10/15/wilbur/n2ZJZF17OJGN1nHQOjUBWP/story.html |title=Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at 96 |newspaper=[[Boston Globe]]|date=October 15, 2017 |access-date= October 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/richard-wilbur-in-the-new-yorker |title=Richard Wilbur in the New Yorker |date=October 16, 2017 |first1=Hannah |last1=Aizenman |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-wilbur-20171016-story.html |title=Richard Wilbur, Who Twice Won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Dies at 96|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 16, 2017 |access-date=September 28, 2019|quote=The U.S. poet laureate in 1987-88, Wilbur was often cited as an heir to Robert Frost and other New England writers and was the rare versifier to enjoy a following beyond the poetry community. He was regarded — not always favorably — as a leading “formalist,” a master of old-fashioned meter and language who resisted contemporary trends. Wilbur was also known for his translations, especially of Moliere, Racine and other French playwrights.}}</ref>