Former U.S. poet laureate Howard Stanley Nemerov, 71:- Sunday, July 7, 1991
Howard Stanley Nemerov, who was poet laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990, died of cancer at his home Friday, the University of Washington in St. Louis announced Saturday. He was 71.
Mr. Nemerov won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1978 for his collected poems.
In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of the Arts by President Ronald Reagan at a White House ceremony in recognition of his lifetime work.
Mr. Nemerov had taught writing at Washington University in St. Louis since 1969.
He published 26 books of poetry, short stories, essays and criticism. His prose covered topics as diverse as football, trees and science, and he wrote scholarly essays on Dante, Blake, Shakespeare and Proust.
Mr. Nemerov was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
As poet laureate, Mr. Nemerov wrote verses commemorating the 200th anniversary of Congress and the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. He was the third man to hold the position, which was established by Congress in 1985. He followed Robert Penn Warren and Richard Wilbur.
His 1957 book The Homecoming Game, one of three novels he wrote, was his best-known work and was made into the movie "Tall Story" starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda.
He was born in New York City in 1920, son of a Fifth Avenue department store owner. In 1941, he declined an offer to join the family business and instead joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and flew 57 fighter-bomber combat missions from England before transferring to the U.S. Army Air Forces.
The late Diane Arbus, a renowned photographer, was his sister.
Howard Stanley Nemerov, who was poet laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990, died of cancer at his home Friday, the University of Washington in St. Louis announced Saturday. He was 71.
Mr. Nemerov won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1978 for his collected poems.
In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of the Arts by President Ronald Reagan at a White House ceremony in recognition of his lifetime work.
Mr. Nemerov had taught writing at Washington University in St. Louis since 1969.
He published 26 books of poetry, short stories, essays and criticism. His prose covered topics as diverse as football, trees and science, and he wrote scholarly essays on Dante, Blake, Shakespeare and Proust.
Mr. Nemerov was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
As poet laureate, Mr. Nemerov wrote verses commemorating the 200th anniversary of Congress and the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. He was the third man to hold the position, which was established by Congress in 1985. He followed Robert Penn Warren and Richard Wilbur.
His 1957 book The Homecoming Game, one of three novels he wrote, was his best-known work and was made into the movie "Tall Story" starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda.
He was born in New York City in 1920, son of a Fifth Avenue department store owner. In 1941, he declined an offer to join the family business and instead joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and flew 57 fighter-bomber combat missions from England before transferring to the U.S. Army Air Forces.
The late Diane Arbus, a renowned photographer, was his sister.
Former U.S. poet laureate Howard Stanley Nemerov, 71:- Sunday, July 7, 1991
Howard Stanley Nemerov, who was poet laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990, died of cancer at his home Friday, the University of Washington in St. Louis announced Saturday. He was 71.
Mr. Nemerov won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1978 for his collected poems.
In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of the Arts by President Ronald Reagan at a White House ceremony in recognition of his lifetime work.
Mr. Nemerov had taught writing at Washington University in St. Louis since 1969.
He published 26 books of poetry, short stories, essays and criticism. His prose covered topics as diverse as football, trees and science, and he wrote scholarly essays on Dante, Blake, Shakespeare and Proust.
Mr. Nemerov was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
As poet laureate, Mr. Nemerov wrote verses commemorating the 200th anniversary of Congress and the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. He was the third man to hold the position, which was established by Congress in 1985. He followed Robert Penn Warren and Richard Wilbur.
His 1957 book The Homecoming Game, one of three novels he wrote, was his best-known work and was made into the movie "Tall Story" starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda.
He was born in New York City in 1920, son of a Fifth Avenue department store owner. In 1941, he declined an offer to join the family business and instead joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and flew 57 fighter-bomber combat missions from England before transferring to the U.S. Army Air Forces.
The late Diane Arbus, a renowned photographer, was his sister.
Howard Stanley Nemerov, who was poet laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990, died of cancer at his home Friday, the University of Washington in St. Louis announced Saturday. He was 71.
Mr. Nemerov won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1978 for his collected poems.
In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of the Arts by President Ronald Reagan at a White House ceremony in recognition of his lifetime work.
Mr. Nemerov had taught writing at Washington University in St. Louis since 1969.
He published 26 books of poetry, short stories, essays and criticism. His prose covered topics as diverse as football, trees and science, and he wrote scholarly essays on Dante, Blake, Shakespeare and Proust.
Mr. Nemerov was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
As poet laureate, Mr. Nemerov wrote verses commemorating the 200th anniversary of Congress and the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. He was the third man to hold the position, which was established by Congress in 1985. He followed Robert Penn Warren and Richard Wilbur.
His 1957 book The Homecoming Game, one of three novels he wrote, was his best-known work and was made into the movie "Tall Story" starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda.
He was born in New York City in 1920, son of a Fifth Avenue department store owner. In 1941, he declined an offer to join the family business and instead joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and flew 57 fighter-bomber combat missions from England before transferring to the U.S. Army Air Forces.
The late Diane Arbus, a renowned photographer, was his sister.
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