Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht · Arts & Literature
Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet ('The Hard Hours')
1923, New York City, USA — 2004, Washington, D.C., USA
United States
Anthony Hecht is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet ('The Hard Hours')
Hecht was an American poet whose formally exacting verse confronted the horrors of the 20th century, especially World War II — which he witnessed as a soldier — and the Holocaust; The Hard Hours won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and he served as U.S. Poet Laureate. He was born in New York City to German-Jewish parents.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet ('The Hard Hours')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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