Robert Lowell AKA Robert Traill Spence Lowell Born: 1-Mar-1917 Birthplace: Boston, MA Died: 12-Sep-1977 Location of death: New York City Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Stark Cemetery, Dunbarton Center, NH
Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Lord Weary's Castle Father: Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Sr. (Officer, U.S. Navy, d. 1950) Mother: Charlotte Winslow (d. 1954) Wife: Jean Stafford (novelist, b. 1915, m. 1940, div. 1948, d. 1979) Wife: Elizabeth Hardwick (critic/writer, m. 1949, div. 1972)
High School: St. Mark's Preparatory School University: Harvard University (two years, dropped out) University: BA Classics, Kenyon College (1940, summa cum laude)
US Poet Laureate (1947-48) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1947 for Lord Weary's Castle Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1974 for The Dolphin National Book Award for Poetry 1960 for Life Studies Converted to Catholicism 1940 Inmate: Danbury Prison (1944)
Author of books:
Lord Weary's Castle (1946, poetry) The Mills of the Cavanaughs (1951, poetry) Life Studies (1959, poetry) For the Union Dead (1964, poetry) Near the Ocean (1967, poetry) Notebook 1967-68 (1969, poetry) The Dolphin (1973, poetry) Day by Day (1977, poetry)
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