Gary Snyder
American poet Gary Snyder in the Sierra Nevada, 1969. Early in his career, Snyder was identified with the Beat movement. Beginning in the late 1960s he became an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism, which were reflected in his poetry.
Gary Snyder
American poet
Also known as: Gary Sherman Snyder
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930, San Francisco, California, U.S.) is an American poet who was early identified with the Beat movement and, from the late 1960s, became an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism. Snyder received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975. Snyder was educated at Reed College (B.A., 1951) in Portland, Oregon, where he became friends with Philip Whalen, a classmate and future Beat poet. Snyder studied...
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