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  1. Louis Simpson

    Jamaican poet

    Louis Aston Marantz Simpson was an American poet born in Jamaica. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road. Wikipedia

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  3. britannica.com

    Louis Simpson (born March 27, 1923, Kingston, Jamaica—died September 14, 2012, Stony Brook, New York, U.S.) was a Jamaican-born American poet and critic, notable for his marked development in poetic style.In 1964, he won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his volume At the End of the Open Road (1963).. At age 17 Simpson moved from Jamaica to New York City, where he attended Columbia University.
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. poetryfoundation.org

    Poet, editor, translator, and critic Louis Simpson was born in Jamaica to Scottish and Russian parents. He moved to the United States when he was 17 to study at Columbia University. After his time in the army, and a brief period in France, Simpson worked as an editor in New York City before completing his PhD at Columbia.
  5. Louis Simpson - Born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1923, Louis Simpson received the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for At The End Of The Open Road. Louis Simpson - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
  6. Sep 18, 2012Louis Aston Marantz Simpson was born on March 27, 1923, in Kingston, Jamaica. His mother, the former Rosalind Marantz, was born in Russia but left when her father died and immigrated to New York.
    Author:Mervyn Rothstein
  7. encyclopedia.com

    Ronald Moran in Louis Simpson made a similar comment in regard to The Arrivistes, Simpson's first book. Moran found that Simpson often sounds "like an Elizabethan song-maker or like a Cavalier poet." Gray argued that this juxtaposition of traditional form (ordered meter and rhyme) and modern subjects emphasizes, particularly in the poems about ...
  8. encyclopedia.com

    Louis Aston Marantz Simpson. American poet, critic, and educator Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born 1923) was widely recognized for the elegance of his verse. Louis Simpson was born on March 27, 1923, in Kingston, Jamaica, in the British West Indies, the son of Aston and Rosalind (Marantz) Simpson. In 1949 he married Jeanne Rogers, but was ...
  9. poemhunter.com

    Louis Simpson Biography Born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1923, Louis Simpson was the son of a lawyer of Scottish descent and a Russian mother. He immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen, studied at Columbia University, then served in the Second World War with the 101st Airborne Division on active duty in France, Holland, Belgium ...
  10. griffinpoetryprize.com

    Louis Simpson is the author of 17 books of original poetry. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, and the Academy of American Poets 1998 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Among his many other honors are the Prix de Rome, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Columbia Medal for Excellence. He …

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