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Born March 21, 1905 • Ontario • Oregon
Died February 22, 1978 (aged 72) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
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Anne Sexton
American poet
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Willa Cather
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Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
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W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator

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