Talk:William Rossa Cole

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The article was proposed for deletion on notability grounds, though it seems clear enough to me that authors who are multiple ALA award winners and who get editorial obituaries in the New York Times easily pass WP:AUTHOR. Nonetheless, the article still needs expansion. It's difficult to find sources, particularly online, because his best known work predates the Internet, and because he usually published under the name "William Cole", which is shared by many other famous and newsworthy people. I did track down some books and literary journal articles which contain biographies and overviews of his work:

Poetry Society of America Bulletin. Poetry Society of America, 1971.
Light Quarterly, No. 19. Foundation for Light Verse, Summer 1997.
Doris De Montreville and Elizabeth D. Crawford, eds. Fourth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1978.

I expect to receive hard copies of some of these within a few weeks and will update the article then. —Psychonaut (talk) 07:51, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to keep you waiting nine years for a response, Psychonaut. One reason is that it's only today that I chanced on this article, whose current title is, I think, unfortunate. Given sufficient stamina, it's now possible to find a lot more about people such as Cole, thanks to all the goodies available via the Wikipedia Library. (If only there were 28 or more hours in the day.)

But before I rush to suggest retitling this article "William Cole (poet)", I quote "William Cole: Writer, 80", New York Times, Oct 30, 1992 (via ProQuest):

William Cole, a freelance writer whose articles appeared in many popular magazines, died on Friday at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was 80 years old. [...] He was an anthologist who collected poetry into more than 60 books [...]

It does say that this William Cole was a graduate of Lehigh University, whereas the same newspaper's 2000 obituary of William (Rossa) Cole -- anthologist and poet (and particularly poetry anthologist) -- doesn't mention any university.

Also, the abstract for Michael J C Echeruo, "Theologizing 'underneath the tree': An African topos in Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, William Blake, and William Cole", Research in African Literatures, vol. 23, iss. 4 (Winter 1992), says that it's partly about "the Nigerian poet William Cole". -- Hoary (talk) 01:06, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]