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Full Name: Elizabeth Bishop
Biography:
(1911-1979) Poet. Elizabeth Bishop attended Vassar College from 1930-34 with Mary McCarthy, Eleanor Clark, Muriel Rukeyser, and others. It was at Vassar that Bishop met the poet/librarian Marianne Moore. She taught at New York University, and was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950.
Author's Timeline:
1934 Dutchess County
Bishop graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1934. 
1911 (Unknown) County
Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911. 
1979 (Unknown) County
Elizabeth Bishop died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1979. 
1946 (Unknown) County
North And South
(Pub: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: )
Poetry. 
1965 (Unknown) County
Filling Station
Poetry. 
1979 (Unknown) County
Elizabeth Bishop is buried in Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts. 
1955 (Unknown) County
Poems: North & South / A Cold Spring
(Pub: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: )
Poetry collection; winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956. 
1984 (Unknown) County
The Collected Prose
(Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN: )
 
1994 (Unknown) County
One Art: Letters
(Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN: )
Collection of her letters; selected and edited by Robert Giroux. 
1969 (Unknown) County
The Complete Poems
(Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN: )
Poetry collection. 
1976 (Unknown) County
Geography III
(Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN: )
Poetry collection. 
1965 (Unknown) County
Questions of Travel
(Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN: )
Travel book. 
1967 (Unknown) County
Brazil
Travel book. 
2006 (Unknown) County
Edger Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments
(Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN: )
Collection of poetry, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn.  
? New York County
Elizabeth Bishop taught at New York University. 
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