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Liam Rector, Former Executive Director of the National Endowment for the Arts, Found Dead
Liam Rector, the noted American poet and former executive director of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the Academy of American Poets and the Folger Shakespeare Library, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Wednesday morning. He was 58.
Rector’s wife found his body slumped in a chair in their W. 12th St. residence in Greenwich Village, a gunshot blast suggested the poet had committed suicide.
Having published several volumes of poetry and being a regular contributor to literary publications throughout his life Rector began a college writing program at Vermont’s Bennington College. Rector instructed students on writing seminar papers and served as the programs director.
