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How old was Mary Oliver when she began writing, and how old was she when she published her first poetry collection as noted in the memoir, Upstream?

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Mary Oliver began writing when she was fourteen, and at seventeen she began working in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s estate. Oliver studied at Ohio State and Vassar, and she published her first poetry collection when she was twenty-eight-years-old.

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