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Mona Van Duyn

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Mona Van Duyn first published "Memoir" in the summer 1988 issue of the Yale Review. Subsequently, the piece appeared in her 1990 poetry collection, Near Changes, for which Van Duyn earned the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1991. Near Changes was Van Duyn's seventh published collection of poetry. She first introduced readers to her work with her 1959 publication of Valentines to the Wide World. Since 1990, Van Duyn has published two additional collections, Firefall (1993) and If It...

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Memoirs, Autobiographies

990 words, approx. 4 pages

Memoirs, Autobiographies The war memoir has always been a genre in American literature. The Revolutionary War had no sooner ended than some of its key figures wrote and published accounts of their exp... Read more

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Mona (Jane) Van Duyn

3,747 words, approx. 13 pages

Mona Van Duyn was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She was educated at the University of Northern Iowa, where she received a B.A. in 1942, and at the University of Iowa, where she obtained her M.A. in 1943. Sh... Read more

Mona Van Duyn

1,020 words, approx. 4 pages

Mona Van Duyn (born 1921) was the first woman to be appointed poet laureate of the United States, serving from October 1992 to May 1993.On the occasion of Mona Van Duyn's appointment as poet laureate,... Read more