Samuel Moon

Samuel Moon received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and taught at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was chair of the English Department and was instrumental in establishing the College’s highly-regarded creative writing program.

Moon published many of his own poems in such prestigious journals as Poetry and Atlantic Monthly, and was also a noted literary critic whose non-fiction publications included the anthology One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theatre and Tall Sheep, an oral history of Harry Goulding’s Trading Post in Monument Valley, Utah, which served as the location for a number of Western films.

He died in 2011, at the age of eighty-nine.