Jack W. C. Hagstrom (AC 1955) Collection of Dana Gioia Bibliography Papers

Jack W. C. Hagstrom (born December 2, 1933), physician, literary collector, LGBT rights advocate, and bibliographer, is a 1955 graduate of Amherst College. He earned an M.D. degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1959, where he went on to become Instructor in Pathology. He has retained close ties with the Amherst College Robert Frost Library as a member of the Friends of the Library and also as a collector and donor of modern British and American poetry, particularly work by gay poets. He has published several bibliographies of English language poets, including James Ingram Merrill: A Descriptive Bibliography (Oak Knoll Books, 2009); Dana Gioia: A Descriptive Bibliography with Critical Essays (Parrish House, 2002); and Thom Gunn: A Bibliography, 1940-1978 (Bertram Rota, 1979).

(Michael) Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950), is an American poet, businessman, and former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (2003-2009). He received a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, and an M.A. in comparative literature from Harvard University. He has worked in the private sector as vice-president of General Foods and is currently a professor of poetry at the University of Southern California. In addition to writing poetry, Gioia has also written opera libretti, translated German, Latin, and Italian poetry into English, and edited numerous literary anthologies.