| LC control no. | n 79103777 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3563.U35 |
| Personal name heading | Mueller, Lisel |
| Variant(s) | Neumann, Elisabeth Annelore, 1924-2020 |
| Located | Chicago (Ill.) Lake Forest (Ill.) |
| Birth date | 1924-02-08 |
| Death date | 2020-02-21 |
| Place of birth | Hamburg (Germany) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | American poetry |
| Profession or occupation | Poets |
| Found in | Author's Dependencies, 1965. NUCMC data from Washington Univ. Libr. for Urdang, C. Papers, 1940-1983 (Mueller, Lisel, 1924- ; American author) Her Dependencies, 1998: CIP t.p. (Lisel Mueller) data sheet (b. Feb. 8, 1924) Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 24, 2020 (in obituary dated Feb. 23, 2020: Lisel Mueller, who fled Hitler's Germany as a teenager and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet in the United States, died Feb. 21 at a retirement community in Chicago. She was 96. After immigrating to the United States at age 15, Ms. Mueller spent some eight decades in the Midwest, where she lived for many years in a rural stretch of Chicago's North Shore suburbs. Her poetry career began relatively late, with the publication of her first collection, "Dependencies" (1965), when she was 41. Ms. Mueller was born Elisabeth Annelore Neumann in Hamburg on Feb. 8, 1924. She married Paul Mueller in 1943. Ms. Mueller worked as a social worker and librarian while writing on the side, reviewing poetry for the Chicago Daily News before focusing on her own work, even as she raised two daughters in Lake Forest, Ill.) |
| Associated language | eng |
 |  |  |
View this record in: MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
