Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1973

Epithet: writer

American poet, short-story writer, novelist, and critic .

Conrad Aiken was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

American poet, critic, and fiction writer.

Aiken was a poet and literary critic who was born and later died in Savannah, Georgia.

Conrad Aiken (1889-1970), American poet, short story writer, critic and novelist.

Conrad Aiken published poems, essays, short stories, novels, and literary criticism. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for Selected Poems (1929) and a National Book Award for Collected Poems (1953). His literary autobiography, Ushant, reveals the international nature of his complex life and literary career. Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia, on August 5, 1889, the eldest of four children of a prominent doctor from New York, William Aiken... When Aiken was eleven, Aiken's father killed his wife and then shot himsel--without any warning. The young Aiken was sent to live with an aunt in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He later attended Harvard University, where he met the young T. S. Eliot, who became a lifelong friend and literary associate... Aiken's earliest poetry was written partly under the influence of a beloved teacher at Harvard, the philosopher George Santayana. This association shaped Aiken as a poet who was deeply musical in his approach and, at the same time, philosophical in seeking answers to his own problems and the problems of the modern world. After 1960, when his work was rediscovered by readers and critics, a new view of Aiken emerged--one that emphasized his psychological problems, along with his continuing study of Sigmund Freud, Carl G. Jung, and other depth psychologists... Six months before Aiken's death on August 17, 1973, Governor Jimmy Carter appointed him poet laureate of the state of Georgia. "Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)" New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-454&sug=y (Retrieved 11/4/08)

American author and poet.

American poet.

American modernist poet.

American poet, prose fiction writer, and critic.

Aiken was a poet, novelist and short story writer from Savannah, Georgia.

American poet, critic and fiction writer.

Aiken was an American poet, critic, and fiction writer.

American poet, anthologist, critic and fiction writer.

Aiken was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

Aiken was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

Conrad Aiken, born in Savannah, Ga., published poetry, short stories, novels, critism, one play, and a long autobiographical essay. Although he received the most prestigious of literary awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for Selected Poems and a National Book Award in 1954 for Collected Poems, along with the critical acclaim of some of the most respected writers and critics of his time, Aiken never became a truly popular poet.

Aiken was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His Mr. Arcularis: A play was published by Harvard University Press in 1957.

"Over a period of nearly fifty years Conrad Aiken published poems, essays, short stories, novels, and literary criticism. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for Selected Poems (1929) and a National Book Award for Collected Poems (1953). His literary autobiography, Ushant, reveals the international nature of his complex life and literary career. Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia, on August 5, 1889, the eldest of four children of a prominent doctor from New York, William Aiken. The author's mother, Anna, was the daughter of a prominent Massachusetts Unitarian minister. When Aiken was eleven, Aiken's father killed his wife and then shot himself--without any warning. The young Aiken was sent to live with an aunt in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He later attended Harvard University, where he met the young T. S. Eliot, who became a lifelong friend and literary associate. Aiken married Jessie McDonald in 1912. They had three children but divorced in the late 1920s, after they had settled in England." -- "Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)", from New Georgia Encyclopedia (accessed 27 February 2009)

Conrad Potter Aiken, poet and literary critic, was born in Savannah, Georgia, 5 August 1889, and died there 17 August 1973.

Aiken lived most of his life in New England, was married three times, and had three children. In 1912, he received his A.B. degree from Harvard University, and in 1914, the first of his 42 books (which included poetry, fiction, and criticism) was published. He also worked as an editor, columnist, and journal correspondent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for verse (1930), was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (1950-1952), won the National Book Award (1954) and the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1958), and was Poet Laureate of Georgia (1973).