Elizabeth Bishop
1911 - 1979
General Information
Bio
(1911-1979) Poet. Elizabeth Bishop attended Vassar College from 1930-34 with Mary McCarthy, Eleanor Clark, Muriel Rukeyser, and others. It was at Vassar that Bishop met the poet/librarian Marianne Moore. She taught at New York University, and was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950.
Full Name
Elizabeth Bishop
Locations
Dutchess
Author's Timeline
Unknown
OTHER
Elizabeth Bishop taught at New York University.
1911
BIRTH
Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911.
1934
RESIDENCE
Bishop graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1934.
1946
LITWORK
North And South
Houghton Mifflin.
Poetry.
Houghton Mifflin.
Poetry.
1955
LITWORK
Poems: North & South / A Cold Spring
Houghton Mifflin.
Poetry collection; winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956.
Houghton Mifflin.
Poetry collection; winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956.
1965
LITWORK
Filling Station
Poetry.
Poetry.
1965
LITWORK
Questions of Travel
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Travel book.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Travel book.
1967
LITWORK
Brazil
Travel book.
Travel book.
1969
LITWORK
The Complete Poems
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Poetry collection.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Poetry collection.
1976
LITWORK
Geography III
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Poetry collection.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Poetry collection.
1979
DEATH
Elizabeth Bishop died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1979.
1979
INTERMENT
Elizabeth Bishop is buried in Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts.
1984
LITWORK
The Collected Prose
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
1994
LITWORK
One Art: Letters
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Collection of her letters; selected and edited by Robert Giroux.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Collection of her letters; selected and edited by Robert Giroux.
2006
LITWORK
Edger Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Collection of poetry, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Collection of poetry, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn.
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