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Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017

LC control no.n 79007244
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LC classificationPS3545.I32165
Personal name headingWilbur, Richard, 1921-2017
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Variant(s)Wilbur, Richard Purdy, 1921-2017
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedNorth Caldwell (N.J.)
Birth date1921-03-01
Death date2017-10-14
Place of birthNew York (N.Y.)
Place of deathBelmont (Mass.)
AffiliationHarvard University
Profession or occupationPoets
Poets laureate
Found inHis The beautiful changes ... 1947.
NUCMC data from Southern Illinois Univ. at Edwardsville Libr. for Guenther, Charles. Papers, 1953-1979 (Richard Wilbur)
NUCMC files (Wilbur, Richard Purdy, 1921-)
Biog. resource center, May 17, 2006 (Richard (Purdy) Wilbur; b. Mar. 21, 1921, New York, N.Y.; also known as Richard Purdy Wilbur, Richard Wilbur; Harvard University, A.M., 1947; Poet Laureate of the United States, 1987-88)
New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 16, 2017 (in obituary published Oct. 15: Richard Wilbur; b. Richard Purdy Wilbur, Mar. 1, 1921, New York City; when he was 2, his family moved to rural North Caldwell, N.J.; d. Saturday [Oct. 14, 2017], Belmont, Mass., aged 96; his meticulous, urbane poems earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and selection as the national poet laureate)
Findagrave, June 15, 2020: Richard Purdy Wilbur (b. Mar. 1, 1921, d. Oct. 14, 2017)
   <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184310181/richard-purdy-wilbur>
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