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Born February 7, 1914 • New York City • New York
Died November 17, 1997 (aged 83) • East Hampton • New York • (Anniversary in 4 days)
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1977)
Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary critic
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
American poet
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
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Frank Bidart
American poet
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Karl Shapiro
American poet
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac
American writer
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
American novelist
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
Kenneth Rexroth and his daughter
Kenneth Rexroth
American poet and painter
Dr. Maya Angelou sits and smiles, wearing a black outfit, in a wooden chair at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and actress
John G. Neihardt
John G. Neihardt
American poet
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks
American author, photographer, and film director
Author Sandra Cisneros stands outdoors with arms crossed, wearing a patterned brown shawl, large earrings, turquoise bracelet, and pink ribbons in her hair.
Sandra Cisneros
American author

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