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A. R. Ammons
February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001
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Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American author and poet.
Ammons was born in 1926 and raised in rural North Carolina, near Whiteville, the youngest of a tobacco farmer's three surviving children. Ammons started writing poetry on board a United States destroyer escort in the South Pacific during the World War II.
Upon his return to civilian life he majored in science at Wake Forest University and later did graduate work in English at the University of California, Berkeley.
For a year he was principal of the tiny elementary school in the island village of Cape Hatteras. For the better part of a decade he worked at Friedrich & Dimmock Inc. as a sales executive in his father-in-law's biological glass company in Millville, New Jersey.
Later, Ammons became poet-in-residence at Cornell University.
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