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Also Known As John Lawrence Ashbery
Born July 28, 1927 • Rochester • New York
Died September 3, 2017 (aged 90) • Hudson • New York
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1992) • Bollingen Prize (1985) • Pulitzer Prize (1976)

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