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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

Wallace Stevens

American poet

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

Mona Van Duyn

Mona Van Duyn

American poet

Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

American writer

Richard Wilbur

American poet

Theodore Roethke

American poet

Robert McAlmon

American author

Pound, Ezra

Ezra Pound

American poet

Doctorow, E.L.

E.L. Doctorow

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William Saroyan.

William Saroyan

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American writer

John Updike

John Updike

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William Styron

William Styron

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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