Illinois State Library

Individual Author Record

General Information Name:  Ann Darr   Pen Name: None Genre: Poetry Born: 1920 in Bagley, Washington Sites: WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ann+darr

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Illinois Connection

Ann lived the last years of her life with her daughter in Chicago.

Biographical and Professional Information

Ann Darr, one of the premier poets in Washington, D.C., graduated from the University of Iowa in 1941, then headed out of the Midwest for New York where she worked for NBC radio as a writer and broadcaster for The Women of Tomorrow. With the onset of WWII, she joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, and was stationed in Sweetwater, Texas. While more than 25,000 women signed up for the WASPs, only 1,074 earned wings, Ann among them. She herself flew every kind of plane, e.g., B-26s at the gunnery school near Las Vegas, while gunners in B-17s fired live ammunition at the target she was towing. Ann authored ten books and chapbooks of poetry.

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Published Works

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Titles At Your Library

	Do You Take This Woman ISBN: 0931846285 Washington Writers Pub House. 1986
	Confessions of a skewed romantic: Poems ISBN: 0938572040 The Bunny and the Crocodile Press. 1993
	Flying the Zuni mountains ISBN: 0938572083 Forest Woods Media Productions. 1994 Book by Darr, Ann

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Awards

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