Alan Dugan

Alan Dugan (born February 12, 1923, New York City, New York, U.S.—died September 3, 2003, Hyannis, Massachusetts) was an American poet who wrote with bemused sarcasm about mundane topics, infusing them with irony. A fully developed style is evident in his first verse collection, Poems (1961), which in 1962 won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Dugan served in World War II and attended Queens College, City University of New York, and Olivet...