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Born September 17, 1883 • Rutherford • New Jersey
Died March 4, 1963 (aged 79) • Rutherford • New Jersey
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Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Bollingen Prize (1952)
Notable Works “Al Que Quiere!” • “By the Road to the Contagious Hospital” • “Paterson” • “Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems” • “Spring and All” • “The Red Wheelbarrow”
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
American poet
Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
Richard Wilbur
American poet
Theodore Roethke
American poet
Robert McAlmon
American author
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Doctorow, E.L.
E.L. Doctorow
American author
William Saroyan.
William Saroyan
American author
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
John Updike
John Updike
American author
William Styron
William Styron
American author

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