Dr. Jerome A. Fallon had served as a college teacher and administrator for forty years, the last
twenty-one of which were at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale Michigan, Carleton's alma mater. Dr.
Fallon has published numerous articles and has obliged with lectures and poetry
readings. He retired in 1989 but continued to serve as the curator of the Will Carleton papers held
in the Carr Memorial Library of Hillsdale College. The library holds Carleton diaries, notebooks,
correspondence and scrapbooks, his published works, many issues of Everywhere Magazine,
photographs, family mementoes, souvenirs and newspaper clippings. It also is the repository for the
unfinished accounts of Carleton's life prepared by his friends, Alonzo B. Bragdon and Byron A. Finney.
Thanks to Dr. J.A. Fallon, this full-length biography of Will Carleton is now for sale. In 1919
Carleton's poems were a reason for celebration throughout Michigan because it designated October 21,
as Will Carleton Day for recognition of literature in its public schools. Will Carleton (1845-1912)
continues to inspire as seen through these words which were read 93 years ago at his funeral:
“He sprang from the bosom of the people, near to nature's heart, he saw as they saw, felt as they felt,
suffered as they suffered, and told it all with such homely, simple, beautiful sympathy, that all the
world was touched”. Should you purchse the biography, Will Carleton Poet Of the People
you too can come to know and cherish Michigan's “beloved” poet, Will Carleton.
