Person Detail: Howard Nemerov

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General Information:
Full Name: Howard Nemerov
Biography: (1920-1991) Poet, novelist, critic. Howard Nemerov was born in New York City and graduated Harvard in 1941. During World War II he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and then the United States Army Air Force. He began teaching in 1946. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977, and in 1978, his "Collected Poems" was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 1981, he received the Bollingen Prize. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and he was named the nation's third Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1988 to 1990.
Author's Timeline:
1920		New York County Howard Nemerov was born in New York City in 1920.
1991		(Unknown) County Howard Nemerov died in University City, Missouri, in 1991.
1977		(Unknown) County Collected Poems His "Collected Poems" was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
1947		(Unknown) County The Image and the Law Poetry collection.
1964		(Unknown) County The Next Room of the Dream Poetry collection.
1946		Oneida County Nemerov taught at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, from 1946-1948.
1987		(Unknown) County War Stories Poetry collection.
1957		(Unknown) County The Homecoming Game Fiction.
1960		(Unknown) County A Commodity of Dreams and Other Stories Fiction.
1979		(Unknown) County By Al Lebowitz's Pool Poetry collection.
1984		(Unknown) County Inside the Onion Poetry collection.
1949		(Unknown) County The Melodramatists Novel.
1954		(Unknown) County Federigo; or, the Power of Love Novel.