| 词条 | Ann Darr |
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| name = Lois "Ann" Russell Darr | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|03|13}} | birth_place = Bagley, Iowa, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|12|02|1920|03|13}} | burial_place = Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois[1] | occupation = journalist, broadcaster, pilot, homemaker, poet, writer | spouse = George Darr (divorced) | children = Dr. Elizabeth Darr, Deborah Darr and Shannon Darr }}Ann Darr (March 13, 1920 – December 2, 2007) was an American poet and educator who lived in Washington, D.C. Born Lois Ann Russell in Bagley, Iowa she studied at the University of Iowa where she graduated in 1941 and also completed Civilian Pilot Training. After college she began her career as a writer and broadcaster on the NBC Radio daily program The Women of Tomorrow. When war broke out and her husband, enlisted in the Navy, she applied to the Women Airforce Service Pilots program and trained at Sweetwater, TX under pioneering aviator Jacqueline Cochran. She wrote of her experience as a pilot in her 1978 book Cleared For Landing which the Washington Post praised for its "keen perception of the darker side of things."[2] Darr taught creative writing at American University and at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She died of Alzheimer's Disease and was buried as a veteran in 2007. Bibliography
References{{more footnotes|date=April 2009}}1. ^{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Patricia |title=Ann Darr, 87; Aviator During WWII, Poet |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001832.html |accessdate=18 August 2018 |issue=B07 |publisher=Washington Post |date=11 December 2007}} 2. ^https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001832_2.html Washington Post obituary External links
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