Wallace Stevens
American poet (1879-1955) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 75
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
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1955Died2 August 1955National Book AwardAwardPulitzer Prize for PoetryAward1951National Book AwardAwardRobert Frost MedalAward1949Bollingen PrizeAward1879Born2 October 1879
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United States
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Lived 1879 to 1955 · aged 75
