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Arts & Literature

George Oppen

Who

George Oppen · Arts & Literature

What

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

When

1908, New Rochelle, New York, United States — 1984, Sunnyvale, California, United States

Where

United States

Biography

George Oppen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

How & why

Oppen was an American poet and a founder of the Objectivist movement, whose spare, precise verse earned him the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Of Being Numerous. He abandoned poetry for decades of political activism during the Depression and later fled McCarthy-era persecution to Mexico before resuming writing. He was born George Oppenheimer into a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Contributions & Sources

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry