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Also Known As Anne Harvey
Born November 9, 1928 • Newton • Massachusetts
Died October 4, 1974 (aged 45) • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “45 Mercy Street” • “All My Pretty Ones” • “Eggs of Things” • “Joey and the Birthday Present” • “Live or Die” • “Love Poems” • “The Awful Rowing Toward God” • “The Book of Folly” • “The Death Notebooks” • “The Wizard’s Tears” • “To Bedlam and Part Way Back” • “Transformations”

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Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
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Willa Cather
Willa Cather
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Louise GlĂźck
Louise GlĂźck
American poet
Mark Van Doren.
Mark Van Doren
American writer
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American poet
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
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Louis Simpson
American poet
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet

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