W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) Poet .Snodgrass’ first collection of poetry, Heart's Needle, was published in 1959 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. Since then, he has published numerous books of poetry. 8 ½” x 11” typed letter signed, Newark, Delaware, March 8, 1981, to Vance Morgan. “…I don’t believe I can answer your question about a ‘watershed’ work of my own work – one doesn’t tend to think in terms of that sort about one’s own work…tends to let critics and journalists worry about how to pigeonhole one’s work…I must have some hopes that my current work on the last days of Hitler and his unsavory crew (The Fuhere Bunker and my continuing work on it) will later seem like such a piece of work….”