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John Ashbery

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Born July 28, 1927 · Rochester

Died September 3, 2017

Awards & recognition

  • National Humanities Medal · 2011
  • New York Writers Hall of Fame · 2011
  • America Award in Literature · 2008
  • honorary doctor of Yale University · 2008
  • Wallace Stevens Award · 2001
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  • Robert Frost Medal · 1995
  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres · 1993
  • Feltrinelli Prize · 1992
  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize · 1992
  • Horst Bienek AwardPoetry · 1991
  • Bollingen Prize · 1985
  • Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize · 1985
  • MacArthur Fellows Program · 1985
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 1983
  • Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets · 1982
  • National Book Award · 1976
  • National Book Critics Circle AwardPoetry · 1976
  • Pulitzer PrizePoetry · 1976
  • National Book Critics Circle AwardPoetry · 1975
  • Guggenheim Fellowship · 1973
  • Shelley Memorial Award · 1973
  • Guggenheim Fellowship · 1967
  • Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition · 1956
  • Fulbright Scholarship

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