Perhaps the most renowned of the New York School poets of the 1950s, a circle which included John Ashbery.
[1] American Culture's Debt to Gay Sons of Harvard (Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, 29th May 2003.) See also The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality and the Shaping of American Culture (2003), by Douglass Shand-Tucci.
Father: Russell Joseph O'Hara
Mother: Katherine Broderick
University: BA, Harvard University (1950)
University: MA, University of Michigan (1951)
Museum of Modern Art Assistant Curator (1960s)
National Book Award for Poetry 1972 for The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Author of books:
A City Winter, and Other Poems (1952, poetry)
Meditations in an Emergency (1957, poetry)
Second Avenue (1960, poetry)
Odes (1960, poetry)
Lunch Poems (1964, poetry)
Love Poems (Tentative Title) (1965, poetry)
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1971, poetry)
The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara (1974, poetry)
Poems Retrieved: 1950-1966 (1977, poetry)
AKA Francis Russell O'Hara