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Bly, Robert Elwood

(Encyclopedia) Bly, Robert Elwood, 1926–2021, American writer, translator, editor, and publisher, b. Lac qui Parle County, Mn., Harvard (B.A., 1950),…

Robert Bly

Robert Bly was an American poet and the author of the best-selling prose work on modern masculinity, Iron John (1990). Bly's strong poems and charismatic personality made him one of the most…

Robert Bly Biography

American poet, editor, and translatorBorn: December 26, 1926Birthplace: Madison, Minn. Robert Bly is the author of more than 30 books of poetry, including Loving a…

Nellie Bly

Name at birth: Elizabeth Jane CochranNellie Bly was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, a New York journalist whose muckraking made her a 19th-century celebrity. A victim of personal…

Tranströmer, Tomas

(Encyclopedia) Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931–2015, Swedish poet, b. Stockholm, grad. Stockholm Univ. (1956), Sweden's (and Scandinavia's) greatest late 20th- and early 21st-century poet. First published…

Nellie Bly Biography

Nellie Bly(Elizabeth Cochrane)journalistBorn: 5/5/1864Birthplace: Cochran's Mills, Pa. Bly is best remembered for circling the globe in 72 days, thus beating the record of Around the World in…

Pérez Galdós, Benito

(Encyclopedia) Pérez Galdós, BenitoPérez Galdós, Benitobānēˈtō pāˈrĕth gäldōsˈ [key], 1843–1920, Spanish novelist and dramatist, b. Canary Islands. At 20 he went to Madrid, where he spent most of his…

1968 National Book Awards

Arts and LettersSelected Essays, William TroyFictionThe Eighth Day, Thornton WilderHistory and BiographyMemoirs: 1925–1950, George F. KennanPoetryThe Light Around the Body, Robert BlyScience…

Donald Hall

Donald Hall was the United States Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2007, capping five decades as one of America's most respected poets and editors. A native of Connecticut, Hall earned degrees from…

Theodore Roethke

Name at birth: Theodore Huebner RoethkeTheodore Roethke was an American poet of the mid-20th century whose personal, introspective poems influenced a generation of modern poets and earned him a…