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Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography. [1]
Poetry portal; These poets have won the American Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, awarded since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American writer, or one of the 1918 and 1919 special awards that the organization now considers the first Poetry Pulitzers.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, 1922–1979 [3] Year Poet Title Ref. 1922: Edwin Arlington Robinson: Collected Poems [note 3] 1923: Edna St. Vincent Millay " The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver," "A Few Figs from Thistles," and "Eight Sonnets" 1924: Robert Frost: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes [4] [5] 1925: Edwin Arlington ...
[14] She invented stories for her family and walked with an open book, turning the pages as if reading while improvising a story. [14] Wharton began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, and she attempted to write her first novel at the age of 11. [15] Her mother's criticism quashed her ambition, however, and she turned to poetry. [15]
Patricia Aakhus (1952–2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn Atia Abawi Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), Leah Mordecai Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), poet, novelist and short story writer Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys ...
Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), [1] adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, [2] and where he was an emeritus profes
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. [1] For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry, [2] Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, [3] and Bollingen Prize.
William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his 1983 novel Ironweed.. Kennedy's other works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Roscoe (2002) and Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2011).