Hayden Carruth

Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921-September 29, 2008) was an American poet and critic.
He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1943. Then he joined the Army Air Forces during World War II. He served in Italy. Then he got a master's degree at the University of Chicago in 1948.
After a good start in writing and editing, Carruth had "an alcoholic breakdown." This mental illness kept him away from people during the 1950s, but he still wrote poems and essays. His first book, "The Crow and the Heart", came out in 1959.
During his career he got much support from writing organizations. He received grants of money from the Bollingen, Guggenheim, and Lannan Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1992 "Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991" won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1996 his 'Scrambled "Eggs &amp; Whiskey: Poems, 1991–1995" won the National Book Award"."
Carruth died in Munnsville, New York in 2008.