Stephen Dunn
American poet and educator (1939ā2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939 ā June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1][2] He also won three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship,[3] and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship.[4]
This article is about the American poet. For other people with similar names, see Stephen Dunn (disambiguation).
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Born | (1939-06-24)June 24, 1939 Forest Hills, Queens, New York, U.S. |
Died | June 24, 2021(2021-06-24) (aged 82) Frostburg, Maryland, U.S. |
Occupation | Professor and poet |
Education | Hofstra University (BA) Syracuse University (MFA) |
Genre | Poetry |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
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