Mona Van Duyn
1921 - 2004
General Information
Bio
(1921-2004) Poet, editor. Mona Van Duyn was a life chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1992 to 1993.
Full Name
Mona Van Duyn
Locations
New York
Author's Timeline
1921
BIRTH
Mona Van Duyn was born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1921.
1959
LITWORK
Valentines to the Wide World
Cummington Publishing.
Collection of poetry.
Cummington Publishing.
Collection of poetry.
1964
LITWORK
A Time Of Bees
Collection of poetry.
Collection of poetry.
1970
LITWORK
To See, To Take
Atheneum.
Collection of poetry; winner of National Book Award.
Atheneum.
Collection of poetry; winner of National Book Award.
1972
LITWORK
Bedtime Stories
Ceres Press.
Collection of poetry.
Ceres Press.
Collection of poetry.
1973
LITWORK
Merciful Disguises
Collection of poetry.
Collection of poetry.
1982
LITWORK
Letters from a Father and Other Poems
Atheneum.
Collection of poetry.
Atheneum.
Collection of poetry.
1985
OTHER
Van Duyn was named a life chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She had gained a fellowship in 1983.
1990
LITWORK
Near Changes
Collection of poetry; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1991.
Collection of poetry; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1991.
1993
LITWORK
Firefall: Poems
Collection of poetry.
Collection of poetry.
1993
LITWORK
If It Be Not I: Collected Poems, 1959-1982
Collection of poetry.
Collection of poetry.
2003
LITWORK
Selected Poems
Knopf.
Collection of poetry.
Knopf.
Collection of poetry.
2004
DEATH
Mona Van Duyn died of bone cancer in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 2004.
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