John Wheatcroft
John Wheatcroft (July 24, 1925 - March 14, 2017) was an American writer and teacher.

A novelist, poet, and playwright, Wheatcroft's works have appeared in "The New York Times" and the "Beloit Poetry Journal". He was born in 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served in the United States Navy in World War II. Wheatcroft attended Temple University, Rutgers University, and Bucknell University, where he graduated in 1949. He began teaching in Bucknell's English department in 1952. He founded and directed the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in 1985 and was the first director of Bucknell's Stadler Center for Poetry. He also served as a juror for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A professor emeritus since 1996, Wheatcroft has continued to write and be published since his retirement.

Wheatcroft's significant writings include the play "Ofoti", which was produced for NET Playhouse (now PBS) in 1966 starring René Auberjonois, and made into a film, The Boy Who Loved Trolls, in 1984. He wrote "Catherine, Her Book", creating diary entries of Catherine Earnshaw from "Wuthering Heights", which is cited in Patsy Stoneman's "Brontë Transformations", and Christopher Heywood's version of "Wuthering Heights". He is mentioned in the 1986 edition of Curt Johnson's "Who's who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets". He also edited and participated in "Our Other Voices: Nine Poets Speaking", a collection of interviews with poets such as Josephine Jacobsen and Wendell Berry. For more information see johnwheatcroft.com

Wheatcroft is buried in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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