Howard Nemerov

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Howard Nemerov

American writer

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Born:: March 1, 1920, New York, New York, U.S.

Died:: July 5, 1991, University City, near St. Louis, Missouri (aged 71)

Title / Office:: poet laureate (1989-1990); poet laureate (1988-1989)

Awards And Honors:: Bollingen Prize (1981); Pulitzer Prize (1978)

Notable Works:: “Blue Swallows”; “Inside the Onion”; “Mirrors and Windows”; “Sentences”; “The Homecoming Game”; “The Image and the Law”; “The Melodramatists”; “The Salt Garden”; “War Stories”

Howard Nemerov (born March 1, 1920, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 5, 1991, University City, near St. Louis, Missouri) was an American poet, novelist, and critic whose poetry, marked by irony and self-deprecatory wit, is often about nature. In 1978, Nemerov received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, which appeared in 1977. (Read Howard Nemerov’s Britannica entry on poetry.) Nemerov grew up in New York City, where his parents owned a department store. Other members of the family included a younger sister who later became the noted photographer Diane Arbus. ...(100 of 332 words)

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