Saginaw, Michigan, 25 May 1908,
to Otto and Helen Huebner Roethke.

A.B., University of Michigan, 1929;
M.A., University of Michigan, 1936;
Harvard Graduate School, 1930-1931.

3 January 1953 to Beatrice O'Connell.

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1945, 1950;
Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize (Poetry magazine), 1951;
Ford Foundation grants, 1952, 1959;
Pulitzer Prize for The Waking, 1954;
Fulbright grant, 1955;
Bollingen Prize, 1959;
National Book Award for Words for the Wind, 1959;
Shelley Memorial Award, 1962;
Litt. D., University of Michigan, 1962;
National Book Award for The Far Field, 1965.

Bainbridge Island, Washington
1 August, 1963.