About William Stafford

William Stafford (1914—1993) was a poet who received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and taught for many years at Lewis and Clark College. Stafford's first collection of poetry, Traveling Through the Dark, won the 1963 National Book Award for Poetry. In 1970 he was appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. In 1992 he was awarded the Western States Book Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.