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1914 - 1919
Randall Jarrell was born on May 6, 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee,
to Owen and Anna Campbell Jarrell. A single sister, died in infancy before Randall
Jarrell's birth. Brother Charles was born in 1915 after the family had moved to
California. His father worked as assistant to a children's photographer in Los
Angeles but soon opened his own studio.
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1920 - 1929
Poor economic conditions forced the family to move to
Long Beach, California. His mother had a "delicate constitution" to which Jarrell
refers in the poem Hope. Relations between his parents became strained.
His maternal uncle Howell Campbell, moved his mother and the children back to
Nashville, Tennessee, and his parents divorced. His mother took a job as an English
teacher at a secretarial school in Nashville. Randall Jarrell worked as a paper
boy and sold Christmas wrappings door-to-door during this period. He did well
in school and developed a love of libraries at the Carnegie Library in Nashville.
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1930 - 1939
1935 A.B. Degree, Vanderbilt University.
1937 - 1939 Instructor, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH.
1938 A.M.
Degree, Vanderbilt University.
1939 - 1942 Instructor in English, University
of Texas at Austin.
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1940 - 1949
1939 - 1942 Instructor in English, University of Texas
at Austin.
1940 Five Young American Poets (poems), New Directions,
contributor.
1942 Blood for a Stranger (poems), Harcourt.
1942
- 1946 U.S. Army Air Forces (Celestial Navigation Tower Operator).
1945 Little
Friend, Little Friend (poems), Dial.
1946 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.
1946 - 1947 Instructor in English, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.
1947 - 1951 Associate Professor of English, Woman's College
of the University of North Carolina (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
1948 Losses (poems), Harcourt.
1948 Ferdinand Gregorovius, The
Ghetto and the Jews of Rome (translator), Schocken.
1948 Levinson Prize.
1948 - Taught at the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization, Salzburg,
Austria.
1949 - 1951 Acting Literary Editor, The Nation.
1949 -
1951 Poetry Critic, Partisan Review.
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1950 - 1959
1951 The Seven-League Crutches (poems), Harcourt.
1951 Oscar Blumenthal Prize.
1951 National Institute of Arts and Letters
Grant.
1951 - 1952 Visiting Professor, Princeton University.
1951 - 1952
Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing, Princeton University.
1953 Poetry
and the Age (criticism), Knopf.
1953 Visiting Professor, University of
Illinois.
1953 - 1954 Associate Professor of English, Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
1954
Pictures from an Institution (novel), Knopf.
1955 Selected Poems
(editor), Knopf.
1955 - 1957 Poetry Critic, Yale Review.
1956 -
1958 Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
1957 - 1965 Member of
the Editorial Board, American Scholar.
1958 The Anchor Book of Stories
(prose), Doubleday Anchor.
1958 Uncollected Poems (poems), Cincinnati.
1958 - 1965 Professor of English, Woman's College of the University of North
Carolina (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
1958 - 1965 George
Elliston Lecturer, University of Cincinnati.
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1960 - 1965
1958 - 1965 Professor of English, Woman's College
of the University of North Carolina (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
1958 - 1965 George Elliston Lecturer, University of Cincinnati.
1960 The
Woman at the Washington Zoo (poems and translations), Atheneum.
1961 National
Book Award for The Woman at the Washington Zoo.
1961 The Best Short
Stories of Rudyard Kipling (editor), Doubleday.
1962 A Sad Heart at
the Supermarket (essays), Atheneum.
1962 Ludwig Beckstein, The Rabbit
Catcher (translator), Macmillan.
1962 Jakob Grimm, The Golden Bird
(translator), Macmillan.
1962 O. Max Gardner Award.
1962 Honorary D.H.L.
Degree, Bard College.
1962 Ingram-Merrill Literary Award.
1963 Rudyard
Kipling, The English in England (editor), Doubleday.
1963 Rudyard Kipling,
In the Vernacular: The English in India (editor), Doubleday.
1963 Six
Russian Short Novels (editor), Doubleday.
1963 The Gingerbread Rabbit
(juvenile), Macmillan.
1964 The Bat Poet (juvenile), Macmillan.
1964
Anton Chekhov, "The Three Sisters," (translator), Morosco Theatre.
1964 -
1965 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati.
1965
The Lost World (poems), Macmillan.
1965 The Animal Family (juvenile),
illus. Maurice Sendak, Pantheon.
1965 Fellow, Indiana University School of
Letters.
1965 Died October 14 at Chapel Hill, NC, after having been struck
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