Personal Life
He married R'Lene LaFleur Howell in 1950. In 1968 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1976, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Dahlberg died in Santa Barbara, California, on February 27, 1977. Frank McCourt wrote a scathing review of their social relationship on pages 103-7 of his biography, Teacher Man.
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