93,758 profiles ranked live

Ruth Stone

✓ Source-basedstable

American poet (1915-2011)

United StatesWritersLived 1915 to 2011 · aged 96
Compare
Fame41.4
Momentum0.8
Languages6
In century#159,923

Ruth Stone was an American poet. She was published widely in periodicals throughout her career and was the author of thirteen collections, as well as a teacher at many schools before finding stable tenure at Binghamton University in 1990, in her 70s.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photos 1

Awards 5

2002National Book Award
2002Wallace Stevens Award
1999National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
1971Guggenheim Fellowship
1965Shelley Memorial Award

Connected to Ruth 6

About this person

Ruth Stone was an American poet. She was published widely in periodicals throughout her career and was the author of thirteen collections, as well as a teacher at many schools before finding stable tenure at Binghamton University in 1990, in her 70s. She found wide recognition late in life, in her 80s, winning a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 for the collection Ordinary Words, a National Book Award for Poetry and Wallace Stevens Award in 2002 for the collection In the Next Galaxy, becoming Poet Laureate of Vermont in 2007, and becoming a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2009 for the collection What Love Comes To.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1915 to 2011 · aged 96
Wikipedia
6 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.