Stanley Kunitz

On July 29, 1905, Stanley Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1926 and a master’s degree in 1927. Kunitz published his first book of poetry, Intellectual Things (Doubleday, Doran and Company), in 1930. Fourteen years later, he published his second book, Passport to War (Henry Holt and Co.). His recent books include: The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (W. W. Norton, 2000); Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected (W. W. Norton, 1995), which won the National Book Award; Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985); The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928–1978 (Atlantic; Little, Brown and Co., 1979), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Testing-Tree (Little, Brown and Co., 1971); and Selected Poems, 1928–1958 (Little, Brown and Co., 1958), which won the Pulitzer Prize. He died in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 100 on May 14, 2006. (Source)