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William Stafford Research Paper

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William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on January 17, 1914. He was an American poet and pacifist. He married Dorothy Hope Frantz in 1944; they had four children, one of them Kim Stafford is a writer for Lewis and Clark College. During the Second World War, Stafford was a conscientious objector and worked in the civilian public service camps. He died of a heart attack in Lake Oswego, Oregon on August 28, 1993, having written a poem that morning containing the lines, "'You don't have to prove anything,' my mother said. 'Just be ready for what God sends. The Stafford family gave William Stafford's papers, including the 20,000 pages of his daily writing, to the Special Collections Department at Lewis & Clark College in 2008.
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