James Tate

American poet (1943-2015) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 71

James Vincent Tate was an American poet. His work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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2015Died8 July 20151995Wallace Stevens AwardAward1994National Book AwardAward1992Pulitzer Prize for PoetryAward1979National Endowment for the Arts FellowshipAward1976Guggenheim FellowshipAward1974Arts and Letters Award in LiteratureAward1969National Endowment for the Arts FellowshipAward1966Yale Series of Younger Poets CompetitionAward1943Born8 December 1943