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(1935-2019) Poet. Mary Oliver was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Hobe Sound, Florida. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of more than twenty volumes of verse.

Full Name

Mary Oliver

Locations

Columbia

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Ms. Oliver studied at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Unknown

RESIDENCE

Ms. Oliver lived for several years at Steepletop, the former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, in Austerlitz, New York.

1935

BIRTH

Mary Oliver was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 10, 1935.

1965

LITWORK

No Voyage and Other Poems
Houghton Mifflin Company

Collection of poetry.

1972

LITWORK

The River Styx, Ohio
Harcourt Publishers Ltd.
0151777500 / 978-0151777501
Collection of poetry.

1983

LITWORK

American Primitive
Little, Brown & Company
0316650021 / 978-0316650021
Ms. Oliver won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection, "American Primitive," in 1984.

1990

LITWORK

House Of Light
Beacon Press
0807068101 / 978-0807068106
Collection of poetry.

1992

LITWORK

New and Selected Poems
Beacon Press
0807068187 / 978-0807068182
Ms. Oliver won a National Book Award for her poetry collection, "New and Selected Poems," in 1992.

2000

LITWORK

The Leaf And The Cloud
Da Capo Press
0306809931 / 978-0306809934
Poetry.

2009

LITWORK

Evidence
Beacon Press
0807068985 / 978-0807068984
Collection of poetry.

2010

LITWORK

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Beacon Press
0807068991 / 978-0807068991
Collection of poetry.

2014

LITWORK

Blue Horses
Penguin Press
1594204799 / 978-1594204791
Collection of poetry.

2015

LITWORK

Felicity
Penguin Press
1594206764 / 978-1594206764
Collection of poetry.

2019

DEATH

Mary Oliver died at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida, on January 17, 2019.

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