death_date birth_place awards notableworks birth_date genre image article_title name occupation alma_mater
9 may 1968 jacksonville , florida pulitzer fellowship prize for poetry -lrb- 1932 -rrb- 1932 guggenheim '' the flowering stone '' november 12 , 1906 poetry george dillon -lrb- poet -rrb- . jpg george dillon -lrb- poet -rrb-
 george dillon editor university of chicago
george dillon -lrb- poet -rrb-

george hill dillon -lrb- november 12 , 1906 -- may 9 , 1968 -rrb- was an american editor and poet .
he was born in jacksonville , florida but he spent his childhood in kentucky and the mid-west .
he graduated from the university of chicago in 1927 with a degree in english .
he was the editor for `` poetry magazine '' from 1937 to 1949 , during which time he also served in wwii as a member of the signal corps .
viewing , from the top of the eiffel tower , the german army being driven from paris , he signaled , in morse , `` paris is free '' .
though included in several contemporary anthologies , dillon 's works are largely out of print .
today he is perhaps best known as one of the many lovers of edna st. vincent millay , whom he met in 1928 at the university of chicago , where she was giving a reading .
dillon was the inspiration for millay 's epic 52-sonnet sequence `` fatal interview '' and they later collaborated on translations from charles baudelaire 's `` les fleurs du mal '' in 1936 .
