Person Detail: May Swenson

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General Information:
Full Name: May Swenson
Biography: (1913 or 1919-1989) Poet, critic, scholar, editor, lecturer, playwright. May Swenson was born in Logan, Utah. She got her bachelor of science degree from Utah State University and then moved to New York City. Swenson won the William Rose Benet Prize of the Poetry Society of America in 1959, Longview Foundation Award in 1959, National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in 1960, Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in 1967. Also she won a Guggenheim Fellowship (1959), a Ford Foundation grant (1964), the Bollingen Prize for poetry (1984), and a MacArthur Fellowship (1987).
Author's Timeline:
1913		(Unknown) County Anna Thilda May Swenson was born in Logan, Utah, in either 1913 or 1919.
1989		(Unknown) County May Swenson died in Ocean View, Delaware, in 1989.
1959		New York County Swenson worked for New Directions publishing company as an editor between 1959 and 1966.
1954		(Unknown) County Another Animal (Pub: Scribner. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1963		(Unknown) County To Mix with Time: New and Selected Poems (Pub: Scribner. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1966		(Unknown) County Poems to Solve (for children "14-up") (Pub: Scribner. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1970		(Unknown) County Iconographs (Pub: Scribner. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1978		(Unknown) County New and Selected Things Taking Place (Pub: Little, Brown. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1958		(Unknown) County A Cage of Spines (Pub: Rinehart. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1967		(Unknown) County Half Sun Half Sleep (Pub: Scribner. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1968		(Unknown) County More Poems to Solve (Pub: Scribner. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1964		(Unknown) County The Contemporary Poet as Artist and Critic Nonfiction.
1987		(Unknown) County In Other Words (Pub: Knopf. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
?		New York County Swenson lived in New York City.