Mona Van Duyn AKA Mona Jane Van Duyn Born: 9-May-1921 Birthplace: Waterloo, IA Died: 1-Dec-2004 Location of death: University City, MO Cause of death: Cancer - Bone
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: To See, To Take Husband: Jarvis A. Thurston (university professor, m. 1943)
University: BA, Iowa State Teachers College (1942) University: MA, University of Iowa (1943) Professor: Washington University in St. Louis (1950-)
Perspective Co-founder, 1947-60, with her husband Jarvis Thurston National Book Award for Poetry 1971 for To See, To Take Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1971 (with Richard Wilbur) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1991 poetry for Near Changes St. Louis Walk of Fame Nervous Breakdown 1949 Risk Factors: Depression
Author of books:
Valentines to the Wide World (1959, poetry) A Time of Bees (1964, poetry) To See, To Take (1970, poetry) Bedtime Stories (1972, poetry) Merciful Disguises (1973, poetry) Near Changes (1990, poetry) Firefall (1993, poetry) If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982 (1993, poetry) Firefall (1994, poetry)
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