Robert Wallace

Robert Arthur Wallace was an American poet. He was born in Springfield, Missouri on January 10, 1932, as the only child of Tincy Stough Wallace and Roy Franklin Wallace. He died April 9, 1999, in Cleveland, Ohio. Wallace was buried at the Lakeview Cemetery there. He served two years in the U.S. Army and was discharged as a private first class. Education He graduated Harvard College summa cum laude in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in English. At Harvard he became lifelong friends with fellow student John Updike. He married Emily Mitchell Wallace, a noted William Carlos Williams scholar and also a native of Springfield. Wallace attended St. Catharine's College, Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship and Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and received a second B.A. in English there. Career