Alan Dugan

Alan Dugan was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 12, 1923. In 1949, he earned a BA from Mexico City College. Dugan taught at Sarah Lawrence, Connecticut College, and the University of Colorado. Dugan’s first book, Poems (1961), selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of the poetry collections Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (2001), winner of the National Book Award; Poems Six (1989); Poems Five: New and Collected Poems (1983), Poems 4 (1974); Collected Poems (1969); Poems 3 (1967); and Poems 2 (1963). His has received a Rome Prize, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation Award. He died of pneumonia in Hyannis, Massachusetts on September 3, 2003. (Source)