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Richard Howard
(October 13, 1929 - living) U.S.A.

Richard Howard

Poet, translator, editor, essayist, and critic

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An only child, Howard was brought up in Cleveland. He came to regard books as "ideal playmates" and resolved to be a poet himself at the age of four. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952. A growing interest in modern French poetry led to further graduate study at the Sorbonne from 1952 to 1953.

He was the editor of the Paris Review, and professor of English at Huston, Texas. He has translated many French authors, including Baudelaire, Cocteau, and Barthes, and has produced a number of volumes of poetry in which homosexuality is a significant theme. Howard is winner of a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for poetry (for Untitled Subjects, 1969) and a National Book Award (Like Most Revelations, 1994).

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