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    Donald Hall, 1928–2018

    by The Paris Review Jun 26, 2018 2 minutes

    Donald Hall, who served as The Paris Review’s first poetry editor, died Saturday at the age of eighty-nine.

    Hall had an enormous influence on American poetry. A prolific writer, he published more than fifty books, from poetry and drama to biography and memoirs, and edited numerous anthologies, including the influential  (1957; coedited with Robert Pack and Louis Simpson).”

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