Lisel Mueller

Lisel Mueller (born Elisabeth Neumann, February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020) was a German-born American poet, translator and academic teacher. She worked as a literary critic and taught at the University of Chicago, Elmhurst College and Goddard College. She began writing poetry in the 1950s and published her first collection in 1965, after years of self-study.

Lisel Mueller
Born	Elisabeth Neumann (1924-02-08)February 8, 1924 Hamburg, Germany
Died	February 21, 2020(2020-02-21) (aged 96) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupations	Poet Translator Academic teacher
Organizations	University of Chicago Elmhurst College Goddard College
Awards	Lamont Poetry Prize National Book Award for Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

She received awards including the National Book Award in 1981 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1997, as the only German-born poet awarded that prize.

Mueller died on February 21, 2020 of pneumonia-related problems at a retirement center in Chicago at the age of 96.^[1]

Related pages

• List of poets from North America