Wilbur was born in New York City on March 1, 1921, and grew up in North Caldwell, New Jersey.[2] In 1938 he graduated from Montclair High School, where he worked on the school newspaper.[3] At Amherst College, he also displayed his "ample literary gifts" as one of the "sharpest" reporters for the college newspaper, edited by upperclassman Robert Morgenthau.[4] After graduation in 1942, he served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945 during World War II. He attended graduate school at Harvard University. Wilbur taught at Wellesley College, then Wesleyan University for two decades and at Smith College for another decade. At Wesleyan he was instrumental in founding the award-winning poetry series of the Wesleyan University Press.[5][6] He received two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and taught at Amherst College as late as 2009,[7] where he also served on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common.[8][6][2][9][10][11]
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