Life and career
Siegel graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois), Wheaton College in 1961, and received an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in English literature from Harvard University. He was a professor at Dartmouth College, Princeton University, and Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and directed the graduate creative writing program for 23 years at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he was professor emeritus of English until his death. His poetry has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, ''Poetry (magazine), Poetry'', ''Transatlantic Review'', and he has been nominated twice for The Pushcart Prize for Poetry. His children's fiction includes the award-winning ''Whalesong (novel), Whalesong'' trilogy, which has been translated into seven languages. He lived in Maine, where he died of cancer in December 2012.List of works
Poetry: * 1973 "The Beasts & The Elders" * 1980 "In a Pig's Eye" * 2005 "The Waters Under the Earth" * 2006 "A Pentecost of Finches: New and Selected Poems" * 2013 "Within This Tree of Bones: New and Selected Poems" Children's Literature: * 1975 ''A Tale Whose Time Has Come'' * 1980 ''Alpha Centauri (novel), Alpha Centauri'' * 1981 ''Whalesong (novel), Whalesong'', Crossways Books * 1982 '' The Kingdom of Wundle'' * 1994 ''White Whale'' * 1994 ''The Ice at the End of the World''External links
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American male poets American children's writers 1939 births 2012 deaths Harvard University alumni 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers Johns Hopkins University alumni Wheaton College (Illinois) alumni Deaths from cancer in Maine {{US-poet-1930s-stub