Mary Oliver (author)

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Mary Jane Oliver (born September 10, 1935 in Maple Heights , Ohio - † January 17, 2019 in Hobe Sound , Florida ) was an American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner .

Life

Mary Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen Oliver (née Vlasak) in Maple Heights, a suburb of Cleveland . She attended Ohio State University and Vassar College in the mid-1950s, but dropped out without a degree.

In the 1980s, Mary Oliver taught at Case Western Reserve University . In 1984 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection American Primitive . In 1986 she went to Bucknell University , Pennsylvania, where she was awarded the title "Poet in Residence".

In 1991 she accepted the Margaret Banister Writer in Residence scholarship at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Mary Oliver lived in Provincetown , Massachusetts for decades , but lived in Florida from 2005 until her death in January 2019 . She died of complications from cancer at the age of 83.

Mary Oliver's work is based on her memories of Ohio and her life in New England . She was heavily influenced by the American writers Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau and Edna St. Vincent Millay . As a teenager she lived at Millay's home for a while to help her sister Norma sift through and organize Millay's literary legacy.

Awards

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  • No Voyage, and Other Poems (1963)
  • The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems (1972)
  • The Night Traveler (1978)
  • Twelve Moons (1978)
  • Sleeping in the Forest (1979)
  • American Primitive (1983)
  • Dream Work (1986)
  • Provincetown (1987)
  • House of Light (1990)
  • New and Selected Poems (1992)
  • A Poetry Handbook (1994)
  • White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems (1994)
  • Blue Pastures (1995)
  • West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems (1997)
  • Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse (1998)
  • Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems (1999)
  • The Leaf and the Cloud (2000)
  • What Do We Know (2002)
  • Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays (2003)
  • Why I Wake Early: New Poems (2004)
  • Blue Iris: Poems and Essays (2004)
  • Long Life: Essays and Other Writings (2004)
  • New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (2005)
  • Thirst: Poems (2006)
  • Our World (2007)
  • Red Bird (2008)
  • Evidence (2009)
  • Blue Iris (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver dies at 83. (No longer available online.) In: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / ajc.com. January 17, 2019, archived from the original on February 3, 2019 ; accessed on January 19, 2019 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ajc.com
  2. ↑ 1984 Pulitzer Prizes: Letters, Drama & Music. The Pulitzer Prizes, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Mary Oliver: National Book Award, 1992. National Book Foundation, accessed January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Oliver, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oliver, Mary Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, writer, and Pulitzer Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Maple Heights , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2019
Place of death Hobe Sound , Florida