Thomas McGrath (1916–1990), poet and screenwriter, grew up on a farm in North Dakota. He earned a BA from the University of North Dakota and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford. He taught at Colby College in Maine; at Los Angeles State College, from which he was dismissed because of his appearance, as an unfriendly witness, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953; and at North Dakota State University and Minnesota State University. His best-known work is Letter to an Imaginary Friend, published as a single poem in 1997 by Copper Canyon Press.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Beyond the Red River, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2021–2022