James Wright

1927–1980

Introduction

James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was an American lyric poet in the post-World War II decades. He often wrote about his experience of Depression-era poverty in the Midwest. His Collected Poems won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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Q6145850

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2006

Date of birth
December 13, 1927

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