Moynihan, William T.

found: Masterworks of children's literature, c1986:CIP t.p. (William T. Moynihan)

found: Hartford Courant via Legacy.com web site, February 12, 2024:(William Trumbull Moynihan, husband, professor, poet, playwright...died peacefully at his home in Storrs, CT, on March 28, 2020, at the age of 93. On June 23, 1926, Bill was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts ; In 1943, too young to enlist with his brothers to fight in the war, he went off to St. Joseph's Seminary at Callicoon, N.Y., where he studied Latin and trained to become a Franciscan friar. In 1946, however, he turned in a very different direction. He left the seminary to join the U.S. Marine Corps ; In 1955, he began his teaching career at Connecticut's Killingly High School ; At the same time, he began working toward the Ph.D. he would earn at Brown University, while also teaching summer school classes at UConn ; in 1961 he was hired as an English professor at UConn. In 1967, Bill was elected Chairman of the English Department, where he remained department head for an unprecedented 20 years. He authored a book on the poetry of Dylan Thomas, and co-authored several textbooks on writing ; he began a second career as a playwright in the 1980s, writing more than nine plays) - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/hartfordcourant/name/william-moynihan-obituary?id=2140607