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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners
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The list Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners includes
Sylvia Plath, Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden and Carl Sandburg.
The list consists of 95 members.
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Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
Overview: Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of ...Date of birth: 27 October 1932Date of death: 11 February 1963Age: 30 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PoetGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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W.H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
Overview: Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and ...Date of birth: 21 February 1907Date of death: 29 September 1973Age: 66 (age at death)Nationality: EnglishOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Marianne Moore
Poet
Overview: Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.Date of birth: 15 November 1887Date of death: 5 February 1972Age: 84 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PoetGender: Female 0
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet
Overview: Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright.Date of birth: 22 February 1892Date of death: 18 October 1950Age: 58 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: FemaleHeight: 5' (152 cm) 0
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Robert Frost
American poet
Overview: Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874 – January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions ...Date of birth: 26 March 1874Date of death: 29 January 1963Age: 88 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PoetGender: Male 0
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Carl Sandburg
American poet and nonfiction writer
Overview: Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham ...Date of birth: 6 January 1878Date of death: 22 July 1967Age: 89 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Elizabeth Bishop
American Poet
Overview: Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for ...Date of birth: 8 February 1911Date of death: 6 October 1979Age: 68 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: FemalePartner: Lota de Macedo Soares (Long-Term) 0
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Anne Sexton
American writer
Overview: Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book ...Date of birth: 9 November 1928Date of death: 4 October 1974Age: 45 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Amy Lowell
US writer
Overview: Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which was promoting a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ...Date of birth: 9 February 1874Date of death: 12 May 1925Age: 51 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: SocialiteGender: Unknown 0
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Conrad Aiken
American novelist and poet
Overview: Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and was U.S. Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published ...Date of birth: 5 August 1889Date of death: 17 August 1973Age: 84 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Archibald Macleish
American writer
Overview: Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard ...Date of birth: 7 May 1892Date of death: 20 April 1982Age: 89 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Maxine Kumin
American poet and author
Overview: Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982.Date of birth: 6 June 1925Date of death: 6 February 2014Age: 88 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PoetGender: Female 0
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Gary Snyder
American poet (born 1930)
Overview: Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (his early work has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance); he is also an ... 0
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Robert Lowell
American poet (1917–1977)
Overview: Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His family, past and ...Date of birth: 1 March 1917Date of death: 12 September 1977Age: 60 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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William Carlos Williams
American poet (1883-1963)
Overview: William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S ...Date of birth: 17 September 1883Date of death: 4 March 1963Age: 79 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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James Merrill
Poet
Overview: James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies ...Date of birth: 3 March 1926Date of death: 6 February 1995Age: 68 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PoetGender: Male 0
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Louise Gluck
American poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
Overview: Louise Elisabeth Glück ( GLIK; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that ...Date of birth: 22 April 1943Date of death: 13 October 2023Age: 80 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PoetGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 5" (165 cm) 0
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Sara Teasdale
American writer and poet (1884–1933)
Overview: Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage ...Date of birth: 8 August 1884Date of death: 29 January 1933Age: 48 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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John Ashbery
American poet
Overview: John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.Date of birth: 28 July 1927Date of death: 3 September 2017Age: 90 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Gwendolyn Brooks
American writer
Overview: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community ...Date of birth: 7 June 1917Date of death: 3 December 2000Age: 83 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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