Howard Nemerov Born: 1-Mar-1920 Birthplace: New York City Died: 5-Jul-1991 Location of death: University City, MO Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States Executive summary: US Poet Laureate, 1987-88 Military service: Royal Canadian Air Force; US Army Air Corps (WWII pilot) Father: David Nemerov Mother: Gertrude Russek Sister: Diane Arbus (photographer) Wife: Margaret Russell (m. 26-Jan-1944, one son) Son: David
University: BA, Harvard University (1941) Professor: Bennington College (1948-)
US Poet Laureate (1987-88) National Book Award for Poetry 1978 for Collected Poems Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1978 for Collected Poems National Medal of Arts 1987 St. Louis Walk of Fame
Author of books:
The Image and the Law (1947, poetry) The Melodramatists (1949, novel) Guide to the Ruins (1950, poetry) Federigo, or the Power of Love (1954) The Salt Garden (1955, poetry) The Homecoming Game (1957, novel) Mirrors and Windows (1958, poetry) A Commodity of Dreams (1959) New and Selected Poems (1960, poetry) The Next Room of the Dram (1963, poetry) The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977, won Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award)
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