John Wheatcroft

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John Wheatcroft
Born(1925-07-24)July 24, 1925
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedMarch 14, 2017(2017-03-14) (aged 91)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • educator
Alma mater Temple University
Rutgers University
Bucknell University

John Wheatcroft (July 24, 1925 – March 14, 2017) was an American writer and teacher. [1]

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A novelist, poet, and playwright, Wheatcroft's works have appeared in The New York Times and the Beloit Poetry Journal .

Biography

Wheatcroft was born on July 24, 1925, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served in the United States Navy in World War II. [2] Wheatcroft attended Temple University, Rutgers University, and Bucknell University, where he graduated in 1949.

He began teaching in Bucknell's English department in 1952, [3] and founded and directed the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in 1985 and was co-founder along with Jack Stadler and the first director of Bucknell's Stadler Center for Poetry. He also served as a juror for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [4] As professor emeritus after 1996, Wheatcroft continued to write and be published in his retirement.

Wheatcroft's significant writings include the play Ofoti, which was produced for NET Playhouse (now PBS) in 1966 starring René Auberjonois, [5] and made into a film, The Boy Who Loved Trolls, in 1984. He wrote Catherine, Her Book, creating diary entries of Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights , which is cited in Patsy Stoneman's Brontë Transformations, and Christopher Heywood's version of Wuthering Heights. He is mentioned in the 1986 edition of Curt Johnson's Who's who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets. He also edited and participated in Our Other Voices: Nine Poets Speaking, a collection of interviews with poets such as Josephine Jacobsen and Wendell Berry.

Death and interment

Wheatcroft died on March 14, 2017; his ashes were interred in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ "John Stewart Wheatcroft". The Dailey Item. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Bucknell University, About Bucknell, noted from WRC Interview, 4/96; Bucknell World, September–October 1981.
  3. ↑ Bucknell University Archived 2010-05-30 at the Wayback Machine , Jack Wheatcroft Poetry Reading, October 24, 2009
  4. ↑ Pulitzer.org, 1996 digital archive of jury list.
  5. ↑ NET Playhouse: Ofoeti at IMDB.
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