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Bio

(1925-2022) Poet. Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in the Bronx, New York.

Full Name

Gerald Stern

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Stern taught at Columbia University and New York University.

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OTHER

Mr. Stern taught a Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.

1925

BIRTH

Gerald Daniel Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1925.

1949

OTHER

Mr. Stern received a master's degree in English at Columbia University in 1949.

1973

LITWORK

Rejoicings
Metro Books Company; First Edition (January 1, 1973)
0915371006 / 978-0915371006
Collection of poetry.

1977

LITWORK

Lucky Life
Houghton Mifflin (January 1, 1977)
0395257751 / 978-0395257753
Collection of poetry.

1984

LITWORK

Paradise Poems
Random House Inc; 1st edition (January 1, 1984)
0394537858 / 978-0394537856
Collection of poetry.

1998

LITWORK

This Time: New and Selected Poems
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.; 1st edition (May 1, 1998)
0393046400 / 978-0393046403
Collection of poetry and a winner of the National Book Award for poetry in 1998.

2003

LITWORK

What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes From a Life
W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (November 17, 2003)
0393058182 / 978-0393058185
Memoir, essays.

2005

LITWORK

Everything Is Burning
W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition (May 20, 2005)
0393060551 / 978-0393060553
Collection of poetry.

2010

LITWORK

Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992
W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition, First Printing (July 12, 2010)
0393076660 / 978-0393076660
Collection of poetry which received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.

2014

LITWORK

Devine Nothingness
W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (November 3, 2014)
0393243508 / 978-0393243505
Collection of poetry.

2017

LITWORK

Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade
San Antonio: Trinity University Press (February 14, 2017)
1595347844 / 978-1595347848
Nonfiction.

2020

LITWORK

Blessed as We Were: Late Selected and New Poems, 2000-2018
W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (January 21, 2020)
1324002336 / 978-1324002338
Collection of poetry.

2022

DEATH

Gerald Stern died in a hospice facility in the Bronx, New York, on October 28, 2022.

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