Donald Hall is an
American author and literary critic. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy,
Harvard, and Oxford, he is the author of over numerous books and collections of poetry, including Caldecott Medal winner Ox-Cart Man, White Apples and the Taste of Stone, and New Poets of England and America. He served
as the 2006–2007 US Poet Laureate and has won numerous awards for his
contributions to literature, including the 1990 Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth
Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement, and the 2010 National Medal of
Arts.
