Stanley Kunitz
American poet (1905-2006) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905 - May 14, 2006) was an American poet.
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Born | Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (1905-07-29)July 29, 1905 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | May 14, 2006(2006-05-14) (aged 100) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Alma mater | Harvard College |
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Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905.[1]
He went to Harvard College. He got his bachelor's degree in 1926 and a master's degree in 1927. After being in the U. S. Army during World War II, he was a teacher at Bennington College in Vermont, then Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Washington.[1]
In 1959, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Selected Poems 1928-1958. In 1995, he won the National Book Award for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected.[2]
He was the U.S. Consultant in Poetry from 1974 to 1976. And he was the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2000-2001.[2]
He was 100 years old when he died in New York City in 2006.[1]