Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell was born in Providence on February 1, 1927. In 1948, he graduated from Princeton University. His first book of poems, What a Kingdom It Was (Houghton Mifflin), was published in 1960, followed by Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (Houghton Mifflin, 1964). Kinnell published several more volumes of poetry, including Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); A New Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), a finalist for the National Book Award; Imperfect Thirst (Houghton Mifflin, 1996); When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (Knopf, 1990); Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1982), for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; and Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (Houghton Mifflin, 1980). Kinnell died at his home in Sheffield, Vermont, on October 28, 2014. (Source)