William Carlos Williams: Quick Facts


Facts

Born September 17, 1883 • Rutherford • New Jersey
Died March 4, 1963 (aged 79) • Rutherford • New Jersey
Founder “Contact”
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Pulitzer Prize • Bollingen Prize (1952)
Notable Works “A Dream of Love” • “Al Que Quiere!” • “By the Road to the Contagious Hospital” • “In the American Grain” • “Paterson” • “Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems” • “Spring and All” • “The Red Wheelbarrow”

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Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
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Richard Wilbur
American poet
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Theodore Roethke
American poet
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Robert McAlmon
American author
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Doctorow, E.L.
E.L. Doctorow
American author
William Saroyan.
William Saroyan
American author
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
American writer
John Updike
John Updike
American author
William Styron
William Styron
American author