Eleanor Ross Taylor (1920–2011)
Autor von Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008
Über den Autor
Eleanor Ross Taylor was born in 1920. She graduated from Women's College, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1942. While studying at Vanderbilt University, she was introduced to novelist Peter Taylor whom she married in 1943. Since Eleanor's first publication, Wilderness of mehr anzeigen Ladies in 1960, she published five collections of poetry: Welcome Eumenides (1972), New and Selected Poems (1983), Days Going/Days Coming Back (1991), Late Leisure (1999), and Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems (2009), which have earned her critical acclaim and several awards. Among these awards are the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize (1997-1998), a fellowship with the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1998), the Library of Virginia's Literary Award for Poetry (2000), the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern Poetry (2001) and the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition (2010). Eleanor Ross Taylor was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2009 and the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2010. She died December 30, 2011 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Taylor, Eleanor Ross
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Taylor, Eleanor Lilly Ross
- Geburtstag
- 1920-06-30
- Todestag
- 2011-12-30
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Norwood, North Carolina, USA
- Sterbeort
- Falls Church, Virginia, USA
- Wohnorte
- Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Falls Church, Virginia, USA - Ausbildung
- Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (1940)
Vanderbilt University - Berufe
- poet
teacher
librarian - Beziehungen
- Taylor, Peter Hillsman (husband)
Ross, Jean (sister)
Justice, Donald (brother-in-law)
Davidson, Donald (teacher)
Jarrell, Randall (friend)
Taylor, Peter Ross (son) - Organisationen
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Shelley Memorial Award (1997/1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ([1968])
Aiken Taylor Award (2000)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2010)
D.Litt, University of North Carolina Greensboro (1976)
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