Howard Nemerov
Novelist, Author
1920 – 1991
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Who was Howard Nemerov?
Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize.
Nemerov was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at Stanford University.
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- Born
- Feb 29, 1920
New York City - Also known as
- Nemerov, Howard
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Ethical Culture Fieldston School
- Harvard College
- Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
(1937 - 1941)
- Employment
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Lived in
- New York City
- University City
( - 1991/07/05)
- Died
- Jul 5, 1991
University City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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