Marya Zaturenska
Template:Short description Template:Infobox writer Marya Zaturenska (September 12, 1902 – January 19, 1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.<ref name="nytimes.com">Template:Cite news</ref>
Life
She was born in Kyiv and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school. She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University;<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in library science.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She met her husband, the prize-winning poet Horace Gregory there; they married in 1925.<ref name="nytimes.com"/> Her two children were Patrick and Joanna Gregory. She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold Morning Sky, and she edited six anthologies of poetry.
Her work appeared in The New York Times,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Poetry Magazine,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Awards
- 1938 Pulitzer Prize
Works
Poetry
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- The Listening Landscape. Macmillan, New York. 1941
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- Terraces of Light. Grove Press. 1960
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Editor
Non-fiction
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- Marya Zaturenska, (1949). Christina Rossetti, A Portrait With Background, The MacMillan Company.
References
- 1902 births
- 1982 deaths
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners
- American women poets
- Valparaiso University alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies alumni
- 20th-century American poets
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
- 20th-century American women writers
- People from Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts