Berryman, John, 1914-1972
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Smith, John Allyn
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John Berryman (1914-1972) was an American poet and teacher.
American modernist poet.
Berryman won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965.
American poet.
American Poet. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize. Taught at Harvard University and Princeton University before joining the Humanities Program at the University of Minnesota in 1955. Remained at the University of Minnesota until his death in 1972.
American poet John Berryman was born in MacAlester, Oklahoma in 1914. He attended Columbia College for undergraduate study and Cambridge University on a graduate fellowship. He taught at Wayne State University (Detroit), Harvard, and Princeton before accepting a position in the Humanities Program at the University of Minnesota in 1955. He remained there until his death.
Berryman's early published poetry included Poems (1942) and The Dispossessed (1948). His 1964 book 77 Dream Songs was awarded a Pulitizer Prize.He also won the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize. He was elected a Fellow of The Academy of American Poets in 1966. He died in 1972 by throwing himself off a bridge in Minneapolis, MN.
Biographical information from The Academy of American Poets Web site.
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