Howard Nemerov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Howard Nemerov

poet

Date of Birth: 29-Feb-1920

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1991

Profession: writer, poet, university teacher, novelist, essayist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet.
He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990.
For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry,Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize. Nemerov was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at Stanford University.