| LC control no. | n 78094025 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3570.A8 |
| Personal name heading | Tate, James, 1943-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Appleby, James Vincent, 1943-2015 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Amherst (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1943-12-08 |
| Death date | 2015-07-08 |
| Place of birth | Kansas City (Mo.) |
| Place of death | Springfield (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Prose poems |
| Affiliation | University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst Columbia University University of California, Berkeley |
| Profession or occupation | Poets College teachers |
| Found in | His The lost pilot, 1967. His Memoir of the hawk, 2001: CIP t.p. (James Tate) data sheet (Tate, James Vincent; b. Dec. 8, 1943) Contemporary poets, c1996: p. 1105 (Tate, James (Vincent); list of publications; Dept. of English, Univ. of Mass., Amherst) New York times WWW site, viewed July 13, 2015 (in obituary published July 10: James Tate; James Vincent Tate; b. Dec. 8, 1943, Kansas City, Mo., to Samuel Vincent Appleby (d. 1944) and the former Betty Jean Whitsitt; took the surname Tate after the remarriage of his mother; d. Wednesday [July 8, 2015], Springfield, Mass., aged 71; lived in Amherst, Mass.; poet whose offhand style, ingenious wordplay and wild flights of surrealism won him a devoted following, a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award; taught poetry at several universities, including the University of California, Berkeley and at Columbia; since 1971 had taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst) The government lake, 2019: dust jacket (James Tate, born in Kansas City, Missouri, 1943, was the author of eighteen poetry books) |
| Associated language | eng |
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