__NOTOC__ George Hill Dillon (November 12, 1906 – May 9, 1968) was an American editor and poet. He was awarded the

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in 1932 for ''The Flowering Stone''. Dillon was born in

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but he spent his childhood in

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and the Mid-West. He graduated from

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in 1927 with a degree in English. He was the editor for ''

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'' from 1937 to 1949, during which time he also served in

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as a member of the Signal Corps. Viewing, from the top of the Eiffel Tower, the German Army being driven from Paris, he signaled, in

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, "Paris is Free". Though included in several contemporary anthologies, Dillon's works are largely out of print. Today he is perhaps best known as one of the many lovers of

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, whom he met in 1928 at The University of Chicago where she was giving a reading. Dillon was the inspiration for Millay's epic 52-sonnet sequence ''Fatal Interview'' and they later collaborated on translations from Charles Baudelaire's ''Les Fleurs du Mal'' in 1936.

Awards

* 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship * 1932

, for ''The Flowering Stone''

Works

*''Boy in the Wind'', The Viking Press, 1927 *''The Flowering Stone'', The Viking press, 1931 *''Flowers of Evil'' Charles Baudelaire, Translator George Dillon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harper & Brothers, 1936 *''Three plays of Racine''. University of Chicago Press, 1961

Sources

''Author and Book Info.com''

External links

1906 births 1968 deaths Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners University of Chicago alumni 20th-century American poets {{US-poet-1900s-stub