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Kenneth Wiggins Porter (born 1905 Sterling, Kansas – 1981) was an American poet and historian. LifeHe graduated from Harvard University in history and business history. He taught at Southwestern College, and Vassar College. He worked for the National Archives from 1941 to 1943, and from 1948 to 1955, for the Business History Foundation. He married Annette MacDonald in 1946. In 1954, was a Fulbright lecturer at Melbourne University. From 1955 and 1958 he taught at the University of Illinois, and at the University of Oregon, from 1958 to 1972.[1] His papers are held at the New York Public Library.[2] AwardsWorksPoetry- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/?id=9w-MFhp7b54C&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&dq=Kenneth+Porter+poet| chapter=Land of the Crippled Snake| title=A Great Plains reader|editor1=Diane Dufva Quantic |editor2=P. Jane Hafen | publisher=University of Nebraska Press| year=2003| isbn=978-0-8032-3802-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=The High Plains| publisher=John Day| year=1938 }}
- {{cite book| title=No Rain From These Clouds | publisher=John Day| year=1946 }}
Criticism- {{cite journal| title=Roethke at Harvard 1930–31, and the decade after| work=Northwest Review| volume=XI| date=Summer 1971 }}
History- {{cite book| title=Provincial Assemblies on the Eve of the French Revolution | publisher=University of Minnesota| year=1927 }}
- {{cite book| title=John Jacob Astor and the Sandalwood Trade of the Hawaiian Islands, 1816–1828.| publisher=Harvard University Press| year=1930 }}
- {{cite book| title=Jacob Astor, Businessman| publisher=Harvard university press| year=1931 }}
- {{cite book| title=Jacksons and the Lees: Two Generations of Massachusetts Merchants 1765-1844 | publisher=Russell & Russell| year=1969| isbn=978-0-8462-1244-7 }} (Harvard University Press, 1937).
- The History of Humble Oil and Refining Company with Henrietta M. Larson (Harper and Row, 1959)
- {{cite book| title=Negro labor in the western cattle industry, 1866–1900| publisher=Bobbs-Merrill| year=1969}}
- {{cite book| title=The Negro on the American Frontier | publisher=Arno Press| year=1971 | isbn=978-0-405-01983-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-seeking People|author1=Kenneth Wiggins Porter |author2=Alcione M. Amos |author3=Thomas P. Senter | publisher=University Press of Florida| year=1996| isbn=978-0-8130-1451-7 }}
References1. ^http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/PORTER.HTM 2. ^http://www.nypl.org/research/manuscripts/scm/scporter.xml
External links- The Kansas Poems of Kenneth Wiggins Porter, Washburn University
- "Fairfield Porter with poet Kenneth Koch, ca. 1962"
- {{FAG|108305497|Dr Kenneth Wiggins Porter}}
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