Richard Hugo
In World War II, Hugo dropped bombs for the U. S. Army Air Corps in the Mediterranean area. He flew 35 missions. After the war, he studied creative writing at the University of Washington. Poet Theodore Roethke was his teacher.  He got a BA in 1948 and an MA in 1952. His first book, A Run of Jacks, came out in 1961. From 1964, he taught at the University of Montana in Missoula for almost 18 years.