Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1 appearances
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Edition 45 (1964) Winner
Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
ルイス・アストン・マランツ・シンプソン
Ruisu Asuton Marantsu Shimpuson
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1923-03-27 （Colony of Jamaica）
- Died
- 2012-09-14 （Stony Brook, New York） age 89
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Jamaica → New York → North Shore of Long Island, near Stony Brook, New York
Career
- Occupations
- Poet
- Active Years
- 1949-2012
- Affiliations
- Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, State University of New York at Stony Brook, The Stony Brook School
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | School of General Studies | — | BA | 1940年代 | United States |
| Columbia University | — | — | MA | — | United States |
| Columbia University | — | — | PhD | — | United States |
| University of Paris | — | — | — | 戦後 | France |
Columbia University
School of General Studies
Degree:
BA
Period:
1940年代
Year of Graduation:
1948
Country:
United States
Studied under Mark Van Doren
Columbia University
Degree:
MA
Year of Graduation:
1950
Country:
United States
Columbia University
Degree:
PhD
Year of Graduation:
1959
Country:
United States
University of Paris
Period:
戦後
Country:
France
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | At the End of the Open Road | Poetry | Columbia University | 受賞 |
| 1962 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Rome Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1998 | Harold Morton Landon Translation Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1964
Work:
At the End of the Open Road
Category:
Poetry
Organization:
Columbia University
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1962
Result:
受賞
Rome Prize
Result:
受賞
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
1998
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
At the End of the Open Road
1963 PoetryA sustained meditation on the American character, traversing the open road of American mythology and bringing us back to ourselves as we are.
American mythologyEveryday American lifeFate
Bibliography
- The Arrivistes: Poems, 1940–1949
- Good News of Death
- A Dream of Governors: Poems
- At the End of the Open Road
- Selected Poems
- Adventures of the Letter I
- Searching for the Ox
- Caviare at the Funeral
- The Best Hour of the Night
- People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949–83
- Collected Poems
- In the Room We Share
- There You Are: Poems
- The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940–2001
- Struggling Times
- Voices in the Distance: Selected Poems
Translations by Author
- Modern Poets of France: a bilingual anthology
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Free verseSpare brand of free verseSimple diction and narratives
- Recurring Motifs
- Lives of ordinary AmericansBewildering reality of the American dreamWar experiences
Legacy
Hailed as a poet of the American character and vernacular. Pulitzer Prize winner whose work critically investigates American myths through ordinary lives.
Trivia
- Born in Jamaica to a Jamaican lawyer father of Scottish and African ancestry and a Russian-Jewish mother.
- Served in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, fighting in France, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
- Did not learn of his Jewish descent until his teenage years.