Franz Wright (1953–2015)
Autor de Walking to Martha's Vineyard
Sobre El Autor
Franz Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 - May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. His collection of poems entitled, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, won him mostrar más a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. In 1996, Wright won the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Wright died of cancer at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts, in May 2015. Deborah Garrison, his longtime editor at Knopf, told the Los Angeles Times: "Franz wrote fearlessly about mental illness, addiction and loneliness as well as about faith and the unending beauty of his world, no matter how broken; he never wrote a line that wasn't fiercely important to him, musical, as witty as it was deadly serious." (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Wright, Franz Paul
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1953-03-18
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2015-05-14
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Vienna, Austria
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- Oberlin College (BA|English)
- Ocupaciones
- poet
- Relaciones
- Wright, James (father)
- Premios y honores
- PEN/Voelcker Award (1996)
Whiting Writers' Award (1991)
The Denise Levertov Award
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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- Obras
- 21
- También por
- 11
- Miembros
- 692
- Popularidad
- #36,565
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 36
- Favorito
- 4
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