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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.
Harriet Monroe, founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, wrote in an editorial (Apr.-Sept., 1922), "The award of a Pulitzer Prize of one thousand dollars to the Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson is a most agreeable surprise, as this is the first Pulitzer Prize ever granted to a poet.
James Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Thomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monk; W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate; Sarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writer; Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet
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Aiken was born in Mermaid Street in Rye, Sussex, on 4 September 1924. [1] Her father was the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken (1889–1973). Her older brother was the writer and research chemist [5] John Aiken (1913–1990), and her older sister was the writer Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009).
Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel The Town (1950), the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . [ 1 ]
The Town by Conrad Richter . Drama: No award given. History: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 by R. Carlyle Buley (Indiana Univ. Press). Biography or Autobiography: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Coit . Poetry: Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg . Music: