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Full Name: W H Auden
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(1907-1973) Poet, writer, playwright. W. H. Auden lived at 77 Saint Mark's Place, Manhattan, New York, part of each year for almost 20 years; he attended Saint Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church.
Author's Timeline:
1907 (Unknown) County
Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, in 1907. 
1930 (Unknown) County
The Poems of W. H. Auden
(Pub: Faber and Faber Ltd., London, United Kingdom. ISBN: )
Poetry. 
1936 (Unknown) County
Look, Stranger!
Also known as "On This Island." 
1937 (Unknown) County
Letters from Iceland
Written with Louis MacNeice. 
1940 Suffolk County
Auden was a frequent visitor to the community of Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York, in the early 1940s.  
1940 (Unknown) County
Another Time
Poetry collection. 
1940 Kings County
Auden lived in a house at 7 Middagh Street, an art commune known as the February House, in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 1940-1941. 
1948 (Unknown) County
The Age of Anxiety
Long poem; winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize. 
1955 (Unknown) County
The Shield Of Achilles
Winner of the National Book Award. 
1965 (Unknown) County
About The House
Poetry collection. 
1969 (Unknown) County
City Without Walls
Poetry. 
1971 (Unknown) County
Academic Graffiti
Poetry. 
1972 (Unknown) County
Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems
 
1973 (Unknown) County
W. H. Auden died in Vienna, Austria, in 1973. 
1973 (Unknown) County
W. H. Auden was interred at The Cemetery at Kirchstatten, Kirchstatten, Oberosterreich, Austria. 
? New York County
Auden lived at 77 Saint Mark's Place, Manhattan, New York part of each year for almost 20 years; he attended Saint Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church.  

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