title: R. H. W. Dillard
text: Richard Henry Wilde Dillard (October 11, 1937 – April 4, 2023) was an American poet, author, critic, and translator.
  
  Life and career
  Richard Henry Wilde Dillard was born in Roanoke, Virginia, Dillard was best known as a poet. He is also highly regarded as a writer of fiction and critical essays, as well as one of the screenwriters for the cult classic Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Roanoke College and went on to receive of a Master of Arts (1959) and the Ph. D. (1965) from the University of Virginia. While at the University of Virginia he was both a Woodrow Wilson and a DuPont Fellow. He is considered something of an institution at Hollins University where he has been teaching creative writing, literature, and film studies since 1964. Dillard has been the editor of the Hollins Critic since 1996. He also served as the vice president of the Film Journal from 1973 to 1980.
  
  Dillard was the winner of numerous awards for his writing including the Academy of American Poets Prize, the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, and the Hanes Award for Poetry.  In 2007, he was awarded the George Garrett Award for Service to Contemporary Literature by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Dillard influenced many contemporary writers including both his ex-wives Annie Dillard and Cathryn Hankla. Others include  Henry S. Taylor, Lee Smith, Lucinda MacKethan, Anne Jones, Rosanne Coggeshall, Wyn Cooper, Jill McCorkle, Madison Smartt Bell, and Julia Johnson.
  
  Dillard died in Roanoke, Virginia on April 4, 2023, at the age of 85.
  
  Bibliography
   1966 The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele
   1971 News of the Nile
   1972 After Borges
   1974 The Book of Changes
   1976 Horror Films
   1981 The Greeting: New & Selected Poems
   1983 The First Man on the Sun
   1988 Understanding George Garrett
   1994 Just Here, Just Now
   1995 Omniphobia
   1995 Plautus's The Little Box
   1999 Aristophanes's The Sexual Congress
   2001 Sallies
   2011 What Is Owed the Dead
   2014 Not Ideas
  
  References
  
  1937 births
  2023 deaths
  Writers from Roanoke, Virginia
  American humanities academics
  American literary critics
  American translators
  Hollins University faculty
  Latin–English translators
  Roanoke College alumni
  University of Virginia alumni
  American male poets
  Journalists from Virginia
  American male non-fiction writers