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BiographyConrad AikenU.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1950-1952Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) was born in Savannah, Georgia. A poet, fiction writer, and essayist, Aiken published 33 collections of poetry. In 1924, Aiken edited Emily Dickinson’s Selected Poems, the first English edition of her work.
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BiographyA. R. Ammons1994 Bobbitt Prize WinnerA. R. Ammons was born near Whiteville, North Carolina, in 1926. He published 29 poetry collections, including Garbage (1993), which received the National Book Award and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress; A Coast of Trees (1981), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Collected Poems, 1951-1971 (1972), which won the National Book Award.
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BiographyJohn Ashbery John Ashbery (credit: Lynn Davis) John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He is the author of more than 20 poetry collections, including Some Trees (1956), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, selected by W. H. Auden; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book […]
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BiographyMargaret Atwood Margaret Atwood credit Jean Malek Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1939. She is the author of fourteen novels, including The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1993), and Blind Assassin (2000), which received the Booker Prize. She has also written eight short story collections and more than twenty books of poetry, […]
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BiographyKofi Awoonor Kofi Awoonor Kofi Awoonor was born George Awoonor-Williams in Wheta, Ghana, in 1935. In addition to translating poetry from the local Ewe dialect, Awoonor wrote and published novels, plays, political essays, literary criticism, and several volumes of poetry, including Night of My Blood (1971), The House by the Sea (1978), and, posthumously, The Promise of […]
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BiographyJames Baldwin James Baldwin James Baldwin was born in Harlem in 1924. Baldwin’s many novels include his debut, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), considered an American classic. He was also a poet and a playwright, but is most well known and remembered as an essayist and social critic. Baldwin’s nonfiction collections include Notes from a […]