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Full Name: Howard Nemerov
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(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. 
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