NUCMC data from Southern Illinois Univ. at Edwardsville Libr. for Guenther, Charles. Papers, 1953-1979 (Richard Wilbur)
NUCMC files (Wilbur, Richard Purdy, 1921-)
Biog. resource center, May 17, 2006 (Richard (Purdy) Wilbur; b. Mar. 21, 1921, New York, N.Y.; also known as Richard Purdy Wilbur, Richard Wilbur; Harvard University, A.M., 1947; Poet Laureate of the United States, 1987-88)
New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 16, 2017 (in obituary published Oct. 15: Richard Wilbur; b. Richard Purdy Wilbur, Mar. 1, 1921, New York City; when he was 2, his family moved to rural North Caldwell, N.J.; d. Saturday [Oct. 14, 2017], Belmont, Mass., aged 96; his meticulous, urbane poems earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and selection as the national poet laureate)