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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]
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 [2] Year Poet Title Ref. 1922: Edwin Arlington Robinson: Collected Poems: 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 [3] [4] 1925: Edwin Arlington Robinson: The ...
A $2.5 million renovation of the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken has lightened its interiors and its heartbreaking history.
Conrad Hilberry (1928–2017) Robert Hillyer (1895–1961) Ellen Hinsey (born 1960) Edward Hirsch (born 1950) Jane Hirshfield (born 1953) Jack Hirschman (1933–2021) George Hitchcock (1914–2010) H. L. Hix (born 1960) Tony Hoagland (1953–2018) Allen Hoey (1952–2010) Linda Hogan (born 1947) Daniel Hoffman (1923–2013) Roald Hoffmann (born ...
Both the prize and the foundation are named after the village of Bollingen, Switzerland and the Bollingen Tower, where Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung had his home. [2] The inaugural prize, chosen by a jury of Fellows in American Letters of the Library of Congress, was first awarded to Ezra Pound for his collection of poems The Pisan Cantos.
Many of the poems in Conrad Aiken's collection of sonnets, And In The Human Heart, were originally included in letters he wrote to Mary. Mary Aiken contributed illustrations to Conrad Aiken's book of children's verse, A Little Who's Zoo of Mild Animals. [7] Mary Hoover Aiken died on 22 October 1992 in Tybee Island, Georgia.
Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald. Jane Hodge was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children's writer, was born.