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(1922-1987) Poet, critic, playwright, editor. Howard Moss was born in New York City. He was poetry editor at the “New Yorker” for three decades.

Full Name

Howard Moss

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Moss worked in Manhattan, New York.

1922

BIRTH

Howard Moss was born in New York City in 1922.

1943

LITWORK

The Wound and the Weather
Reynal.

Collection of poetry.

1954

LITWORK

The Toy Fair
Scribner.

Collection of poetry.

1957

LITWORK

A Swimmer In The Air
Scribner.

Collection of poetry.

1958

LITWORK

The Folding Green
Produced by the Poets Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1954.

Play.

1965

LITWORK

Finding Them Lost and Other Poems
Scribner.

Collection of poetry.

1968

LITWORK

The Oedipus Mah-Jongg Scandal
Produced by the Cooperative Theatre Club, New York City in 1968.

Play.

1971

LITWORK

Selected Poems
Atheneum.

Collection of poetry; winner of the 1971 National Book Award for poetry.

1972

LITWORK

The Palace at 4 A.M.
Produced by the John Drew Theatre, East Hampton, New York in 1972.

Play.

1974

LITWORK

Instant Lives & More
Saturday Review Press, 1974, revised edition published as Instant Lives and More, Ecco Press, 1985.

Prose.

1975

LITWORK

Buried City: Poems
Atheneum.

Collection of poetry.

1987

DEATH

Howard Moss died in New York in 1987.

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