Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1913, Dec. 15 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1930-1932 | Attended Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1932 | Arrested during second Scottsboro trial |
| 1935 | Associate editor, New Theater Published Theory of Flight. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press |
| 1936 | Traveled to England and Spain |
| 1938 | Published U.S. 1. New York: Covici, Friede Inc. |
| 1939 | Published A Turning Wind. New York: Viking Press |
| 1941 | Associate editor, Decision |
| 1942 | National Institute of Arts and Letters Award Published Willard Gibbs. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co. |
| 1943 | Visual information specialist, Graphics Division, United States Office of War Information Guggenheim fellowship |
| 1944 | Member, Writers' War Board |
| 1945 | Lecturer, California Labor School Married Glyn Collins (divorced 1945) |
| 1947 | Awarded Levinson Prize for Poetry |
| 1948 | Published The Green Wave. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co. |
| 1949 | Published Orpheus. San Francisco: Centaur Press Published The Life of Poetry. New York: Current Books |
| 1951 | Published Selected Poems. New York: New Directions Publishing Corp. |
| 1955-1967 | Faculty member, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. |
| 1957 | Published One Life. New York: Simon and Schuster |
| 1958 | Published Body of Waking. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1961 | Published I Go Out. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1962 | Published Waterlily Fire: Poems, 1935-62. New York: Macmillan & Co. |
| 1963 | American Council of Learned Societies fellowship |
| 1965 | Published The Orgy. New York: Coward-McCann |
| 1967 | Member, Board of Directors, Teachers-Writers Collaborative Published Bubbles. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World |
| 1968 | Swedish Academy Translation Award Published The Speed of Darkness. New York: Random House |
| 1971 | Published The Traces of Thomas Hariot. New York: Random House |
| 1972 | Published 29 Poems. London: Rapp and Whiting |
| 1973 | Traveled to Hanoi, North Vietnam Published Breaking Open. New York: Random House |
| 1975-1976 | President, American Center of P.E.N. |
| 1976 | Published The Gates. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. |
| 1977 | Copernicus Award Shelley Memorial Award |
| 1978 | Published The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. |
| 1980, Feb. 12 | Died, New York, N.Y. |
| 1981 | Posthumous publication of More Night. New York: Harper & Row |