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John Ashbery
poet from the United States of America (1927–2017)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 28 July 1927
- Died
- 3 September 2017
- Place of birth
- Rochester
- Place of death
- Hudson
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Ashbery
- Movement
- New York School, surrealism, Postmodernism
- Genre
- poetry
- Field of work
- poetry, translation from French
- Occupation
- poet, writer, university teacher, journalist, art critic, translator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- National Humanities Medal, New York Writers Hall of Fame, honorary doctor of Yale University, America Award in Literature, Robert Frost Medal, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Feltrinelli Prize, MacArthur Fellows Program, Bollingen Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- archives at
- Harvard Library
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- educated at
- Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, Deerfield Academy, Harvard College
- employer
- Bard College, Brooklyn College, New York Herald Tribune, New York, Partisan Review, Harvard University
- end of work period
- 2017
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Art
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- John Ashbery
- notable work
- Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror, The Tennis Court Oath, Flow Chart, Hotel Lautréamont, Girls on the Run, Chinese Whispers, Where Shall I Wander, A Wave
- start of work period
- 1949
- writing language
- English
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