Claudia Emerson (1957–2014)
Auteur de Late Wife: Poems
A propos de l'auteur
Claudia Emerson was born on January 13, 1957 in Chatham, Virginia. She received a bachelor's of arts degree in English at the University of Virginia in 1979 and a master's degree in fine arts in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1991. Her collections of poetry afficher plus included Pharaoh, Pharaoh; Pinion: An Elegy; Figure Studies: Poems; Secure the Shadow; The Opposite House; and Impossible Bottle. She received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2006 for Late Wife. She served as Virginia's poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. She taught at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg and at Virginia Commonwealth University. She died on December 4, 2014 from complications associated with colon cancer at the age of 57. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Courtesy of Pulitzer.org.
Œuvres de Claudia Emerson
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1957-01-13
- Date de décès
- 2014-12-04
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chatham, Virginia, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chatham, Virginia, USA
Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
Richmond, Virginia, USA - Études
- University of Virginia (BA|English)
University of North Carolina, Greensboro (MFA|Creative Writing) - Professions
- professor
poet - Organisations
- University of Mary Washington
Virginia Commonwealth University - Prix et distinctions
- Donald Justice Award for Poetry (2009)
Poet Laureate of Virginia (2008-2010)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 281
- Popularité
- #82,782
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 11
- ISBN
- 32
- Favoris
- 1