Genre Lyric poetry Spouse Horace Gregory (1925) Role Poet | Name Marya Zaturenska Notable works Cold Morning Sky Awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | |
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Alma mater Valparaiso University
University of Wisconsin–Madison Died January 19, 1982, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, United States Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1938) Education University of Wisconsin-Madison, Valparaiso University Books Christina Rossetti: A Portrait wi, The listening landscape, New selected poems of, Cold Morning Sky, Hidden Waterfall Poems | ||
Rhapsody on a theme of Rachmaninoff in B minor (The Invention of the Brake Clamp)
Marya Zaturenska (September 12, 1902 – January 19, 1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.
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- Rhapsody on a theme of Rachmaninoff in B minor The Invention of the Brake Clamp
- Life
- Awards
- Poetry
- Editor
- Non fiction
- References
Life
She was born in Kiev and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school. She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University; she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in library science. She met her husband, the prize-winning poet Horace Gregory there; they married in 1925. Her two children were Patrick and Joanna Gregory. She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold Morning Sky, and she edited six anthologies of poetry.
Her work appeared in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine,