Richard Wilbur AKA Richard Purdy Wilbur Born: 1-Mar-1921 Birthplace: New York City Died: 14-Oct-2017 Location of death: Belmont, MA Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: Second U.S. Poet Laureate Military service: US Army (infantry, WWII, European theater) Father: Lawrence Lazear Wilbur (portrait artist) Mother: Helen Purdy Brother: Lawrence Wife: Mary Charlotte Hayes Ward (m. 20-Jun-1942, one daughter, three sons) Daughter: Ellen Dickinson Son: Christopher Hayes Son: Nathan Lord Son: Aaron Hammond
University: BA, Amherst College (1942) University: MA, Harvard University (1947) Teacher: Harvard University Professor: English, Wesleyan University
US Poet Laureate 1987-88 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1957 for Things of This World Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1989 for New and Collected Poems National Book Award for Poetry 1957 for Things of This World Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1971 (with Mona Van Duyn) Guggenheim Fellowship 1952 National Medal of Arts 1994
Author of books:
The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (1947, poetry) Ceremony and Other Poems (1950, poetry) Things of This World: Poems (1956, poetry) Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems (1961, poetry) Loudmouse (1963, juvenile) Walking to Sleep (1969, poetry) Opposites (1973, juvenile) The Mind Reader: New Poems (1976, poetry) Responses: Prose Pieces 1953–1976 (1976, criticism) New and Collected Poems (1987, poetry) Mayflies (2000, poetry) Collected poems, 1943-2004 (2004, poetry)
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