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Louis Simpson

Jamaican-american poet · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1923 to 2012 · aged 89

Louis Aston Marantz Simpson was an American poet born in Jamaica. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road.

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2012Died14 September 20121998Harold Morton Landon Translation AwardAward1981National Jewish Book AwardsAward1970Guggenheim FellowshipAward1965California Book AwardsAward1964Pulitzer Prize for PoetryAward1962Guggenheim FellowshipAward1958Rome PrizeAward1923Born27 March 1923

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