Alan Dugan

Poet
BIRTHDAY
February 12,1923
Birthplace
New York
Age
Sep 3,2003,age 80
Birth Sign
Aquarius
BIRTHDAY
February 12,1923 (age Sep 3,2003,age 80)
Birthplace
New York

About

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for seven published volumes of poems. His 2001 collection, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, earned the National Book Award.

Before Fame

He grew up in the Queens neighborhood of New York City and later served in World War II.

Trivia

He spent many years on Cape Cod and was a resident writer at the Massachusetts-based Fine Arts Work Center.

Family Life

He married painter Judith Shahn in 1956.

Associated With

He and James Dickey were literary contemporaries.