Louise Glück

Reena Sastri (Boston University)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 22 Apr 1943
Died 13 Oct 2023
Activity 1968-2023

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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One of the most ambitious and acclaimed poets of her generation, Louise Glück was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize, National Book Critics’ Circle Award, Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, William Carlos Williams Award, Wallace Stevens Award, and Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, former U.S. Poet Laureate (2003-2004), Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and two-term judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Born in New York in 1943, she grew up on Long Island with her parents and younger sister. Even as a child she was “ambitious”, “bent on a vocation” as a writer (

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10). A struggle with anorexia in adolescence led to seven years of psychoanalysis. During these years, she also studied in…

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Citation: Sastri, Reena. "Louise Glück". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 September 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12200, accessed 03 December 2024.]

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