John Ashbery was born in 1927 in Rochester, New York. In 1975 he won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow twice, awarded the annual fellowship of the Academy of American Poets in 1982 and received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1985. He is Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College and lives in New York City and Hudson, New York
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