Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1923, Mar. 27 | Born, Kingston, Jamaica |
1933-1940 | Attended Munro College, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica |
1943-1946 | U.S. Army, 101st Airborne Division |
1948 | B.S., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1949 | Published The Arrivistes. New York: Fine Editions Press Married Jeanne Rogers (divorced 1954) |
1950 | M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1950-1955 | Associate editor, The Bobbs-Merrill Co. |
1955-1959 | Instructor, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1955 | Married Dorothy Roochvarg (divorced 1979) |
1957 | Awarded the Prix de Rome |
1959 | Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Published A Dream of Governors. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press |
1959-1967 | Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, Calif. |
1962 | Published Riverside Drive. New York: Atheneum Books Recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship |
1963 | Published At the End of the the Open Road. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press |
1964 | Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry |
1967-1993 | Professor of English, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y. |
1971 | Published Adventures of the Letter I. New York: Harper and Row. |
1972 | Published North of Jamaica. New York: Harper and Row. |
1976 | Published Searching for the Ox. New York: William Morrow and Co. |
1980 | Published Caviare at the Funeral. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc. |
1983 | Published The Best Hour of the Night. New York: Ticknor and Fields |
1985 | Married Miriam Bachner (divorced 1998) |
1990 | Published In the Room We Share. New York: Paragon House |
1994 | Published The King My Father's Wreck. Oregon: Story Line Press |
1997 | Published Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology. Oregon: Story Line Press |
2012, Sep. 18 | Died, Stony Brook, N.Y. |