William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 - August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He and his writings are sometimes identified with the Pacific Northwest. Wikipedia
William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1914. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Kansas at Lawrence and, in 1954, a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. During the Second World War, Stafford was a conscientious objector and www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/224
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One of them happened to be the son of a man who'd worked with William Stafford in the Forest Service camps during World War II.Generosity led to opportunity. www.literarytraveler.com/stafford/stafford.htm
Born in 1914, Stafford was drafted in 1940, and severed as a conscientious objector throughout the war (forestry, soil conservation in Arkansas and California); in 1948, Stafford published his master's thesis, a book about conscientious objectors, Down in www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stafford/about.htm
William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on January 17, 1914, to Ruby Mayher and Earl Ingersoll Stafford. web.archive.org/web/20041205090208/http://www.unl.edu/pla...
Lewis & Clark College has a wide range of books, manuscripts, and broadsides, by the late poet William Stafford, 1914-1993. www.lclark.edu/~archives/specialcollections/stafford.html
...Kansas History Web Sites William Stafford's Kansas William Stafford's Hutchinson One Home Mine was a midwest home--you can keep your world. Plain black hats rode the thoughts that made our code. We sang hymns in... www.kansasheritage.org/staffordkansas.html
