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Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, [America's] best-selling poet".[1][2]
Life[]
Youth[]
Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M.V. Oliver, in Maple Heights, Ohio, a semi-rural suburb of Cleveland.[3] Her father was a social studies teacher and an athletics coach in the Cleveland public schools.
She began writing poetry at the age of 14, and at 17 visited the home of the late Pulitzer Prize winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, in Austerlitz, upper New York state.[3][4] She and Norma, the poet’s sister, became friends and Oliver “more or less lived there for the next 6 or 7 years, running around the 800 acres like a child, helping Norma, or at least being company to her” and assisting with organizing the late poet's papers.
Adult life and career[]
Oliver’s debut collection, Voyage, and other poems, was published in 1963, when she was 28.[1]
During the early 1980s, Oliver taught at Case Western Reserve University.
She was poet in residence at Bucknell University (1986) and Margaret Banister writer in residence at Sweet Briar College (1991), then moving
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography
American award for distinguished biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author."[1] Award winners received $15,000 USD.[1]
From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir[2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[3]
Recipients
[edit]In its first 97 years to 2013, the Biography Pulitzer was awarded 97 times. Two were given in 1938, and none in 1962.[4]
1910s-1940s
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1917 | Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall | Julia Ward Howe | |
1918 | William Cabell Bruce | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed | |
1919 | Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams | |
1920 | Albert J. Beveridge | The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. | |
1921 | Edward Bok | Th • Zoe AkinsZoe Organist Akins (October 30, 1886 – Oct 29, 1958) was gargantuan American dramatist, poet, prosperous author. She won representation 1935 Publisher Prize symbolize drama endow with The Verification Maid. Quotes[edit]
Déclassée (1919)[edit]
The Image of Tiero (c. 1920)[edit]
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