Ned O'Gorman

Ned O'Gorman
Born	Edward Charles O'Gorman September 26, 1929 New York City
Died	March 7, 2014 New York City
Education	Columbia University; Princeton University
Occupation	Poet, educator
Parent(s)	Samuel Franklin Engs O'Gorman Annette de Bouthillier-Chavigny

Edward Charles "Ned" O'Gorman (September 26, 1929 – March 7, 2014) was an American poet and educator.

Edward Charles O'Gorman was born on September 26, 1929 in New York City. His father was Samuel Franklin Engs O'Gorman and his mother, Annette de Bouthillier-Chavigny, an aristocrat. He spent most of his early life in Southport, Connecticut, and Bradford, Vermont. In 1950, he graduated from St. Michael's College in Vermont and later received an M.A. from Columbia University. While at Princeton University in 1957, he rented a room in the house of Caroline Gordon Tate.

His poetry earned him Guggenheim Fellowships in 1956 and 1962. He won the Lamont Poetry Award in 1958 for his collection of poems, The Night of the Hammer.

He was the literary editor of the Catholic magazine Jubilee from 1962 to 1965. He was appointed by the U.S. State Department to be the American studies specialist in Chile, Argentina and Brazil in 1965. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. He later received the Rothko Chapel Award for Commitment to Truth and Freedom.

In July 1966, he arrived in Harlem and worked that summer as a volunteer teacher in a Head Start program. The children's library he started two months later, named after Addie Mae Collins, one of the four children killed in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, gradually became a tuition-free school known as The Children's Storefront, welcoming all children living in the area. Today, the school thrives with an annual budget of $2.5 million and a waiting list of eight hundred children.

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