| Stanley Kunitz  AKA Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
Born: 29-Jul-1905
Birthplace: Worcester, MA
Died: 14-May-2006
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Gender: Male
Religion: Agnostic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet, Editor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Poet Laureate, 2000 Military service: US Army (three years, conscientious objector, 1943-45, Staff Sgt.) Editor of reference works for the H.W. Wilson Company. Father: Solomon Z. Kunitz (d. suicide in a public park, before Stanley was born)
Mother: Yetta Helen Jasspon (Lithuanian immigrant)
Father: Mark Dine (stepfather, d.)
Wife: Helen Pearce (m. 1930)
Wife: Eleanor Evans (m. 1939, one daughter)
Daughter: Dr. Gretchen Kunitz
Wife: Elise Asher (painter, m. 1958, d.)
High School: Worcester Classical High School
University: BA, Harvard University (1926, summa cum laude)
University: MA, Harvard University (1927)
Professor: Literature, Bennington College (1946-49)
Professor: Columbia University
US Poet Laureate 2000
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Poetry Society of America
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Medal of Arts 1993
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1959 for Selected Poems 1928-1958
National Book Award for Poetry 1995 for Passing Through
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1987
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Lithuanian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
Intellectual Things (1930, poetry)
Passport to the War (1944, poetry)
Selected Poems 1928-1958 (1958, poetry)
The Testing-Tree (1971, poetry)
The Terrible Threshold (1974, poetry)
The Coat Without a Seam (1974, poetry)
The Lincoln Relics (1978, poetry)
The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems (1983, poetry)
Next-to-Last Thing (1985, poetry)
Passing Through (1995, poetry)
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