Last Updated: 13 Dec, 2023 | Views: 320
Age: 52
Profession: Poet
Other Profession(s): Translator
Famous For: "A Blessing"; The Branch Will Not Break
Higher Education: Graduated
About (Profile/Biography):
James Arlington Wright, an American poet, was born on December 13, 1927, and died on March 25, 1980. He wrote poetry. A glass factory employed his father, and a laundry employed his mother. There was no education beyond the eighth grade for either parent. As a result of a nervous breakdown in 1943, Wright graduated high school a year late, in 1946.
Career:
As a high school graduate, Wright enlisted in the "U.S. Army" and fought against the Japanese occupation.
James Arlington Wright studied with John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College on the GI Bill following his discharge and published poems in the Kenyon Review following his graduation.
James Arlington Wright first gained recognition with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956.
1963: Eventually, The Branch Will Not Break, his seminal work, brought his transformation to its maximum expression.
In 2004: Franz Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry alongside his father.
1979: The tongue cancer that struck Wright in 1979 was the result of a lifelong habit of smoking.
Awards:
1972: Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems
Other works:
1957: The Green Wall
1959: Saint Judas
1963: The Branch Will Not Break
1963: Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry
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