Barnstone, Willis, 1927- (Personal Name)

From this white island, c1959: title page (Willis Barnstone)

Contemporary authors online, Jan. 14, 2014: entry for Willis Barnstone (born Nov. 13, 1927 in Lewiston, Maine; occupation: writer; poetry, criticism, translator; O'Connor professor of literature, Colgate University, 1973)

Directory of American scholars online, Jan. 14, 2014: entry for Willis Barnstone (DLitt., Bowdoin College, 1981; Bowdoin College, BA, 1948; Columbia University, MA, 1956; Yale University, PhD, 1960; field of interest: Spanish and comparative literature; French instructor, University of Maryland Overseas Program, 1949-1950; Wesleyan University, 1958-1962; Indiana University, Bloomington, 1962-; visiting professor, University of California, Riverside, 1968-1969; memberships: MLA)

Indiana University, Bloomington, Dept. of Comparative Literature website, Jan. 14, 2014: emeritus faculty page for Willis Barnstone (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese; was a Fullbright Professor of American literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-1985); published more than forty books of poetry, scholarship, translation, and memoir)

Willis Barnstone website, Jan. 14, 2014: about page (instructor at Anavryta Classical Lyseum, 1949-1950; worked for Les Éditions Skira in 1951; taught at Wesleyan University, Colgate University, and Indiana University; his center is poetry, but his books range from memoir, literary criticism, gnosticism, and biblical translation to anthologies; lives in Oakland, Calif.) contact page (email address: willis@willisbarnstone.com)

Wikipedia, Jan. 14, 2014: entry for Willis Barnstone (American poet, memoirist, translator, Hispanist, comparatist, editor; went to Stuyvesant High School, the George School, and Phillips Exeter Academy; studied at the University of Mexico, 1947; the Sorbonne, 1948-1949; and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, 1952-1953; studied Chinese at Middlebury College in their summer language program in 1973)