BiosStars
Home Calendar Groups About Contact

Elizabeth Bishop

Poet born on

Detailed Information

Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Poet
Died
Oct 6, 1979
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
Worcester MA
About
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and U.S. Poet Laureate who is remembered for North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and other works. Her 1969 Complete Poems collection received the prestigious National Book Award.
Family
Her father died when she was an infant, and when she was only five years old, her mother entered a mental institution. Consequently, she was raised by her grandparents in Nova Scotia and by her aunt in Boston.

More Poet

More Aquarius