Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)

Born 2 Oct 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

Ancestors

Died 2 Aug 1955 at age 75 in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.

Biography

Wallace Stevens is Notable.

Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.

On a trip back to Reading in 1904 Stevens met Elsie Viola Kachel (1886–1963, aka Elsie Moll), a young woman who had worked as a saleswoman, milliner, and stenographer.[1] After a long courtship, he married her in 1909 . A daughter, Holly, was born in 1924. She later edited her father's letters and a collection of his poems

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens