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Born May 6, 1914 • Nashville • Tennessee
Died October 14, 1965 (aged 51) • Chapel Hill • North Carolina
Awards And Honors National Book Award
Notable Works “Pictures from an Institution”
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
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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John Crowe Ransom
American poet and critic
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James Dickey
American poet
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Hayden Carruth
American poet and literary critic
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
American poet and author
Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
American author
Sidney Lanier, c. 1870–80
Sidney Lanier
American poet
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset
American author
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
American author
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Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

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