Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn | |
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Stephen Dunn at the 2012 National Book Festival | |
| Born | June 24, 1939 Forest Hills, Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 24, 2021 (aged 82) Frostburg, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor and poet |
| Education | Hofstra University (BA) Syracuse University (MFA) |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939 – June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2000 collection, Different Hours, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also won three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship.