| Joseph Brodsky  AKA Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky
Born: 24-May-1940
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 28-Jan-1996
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Isola di San Michele Cemetery, Venice, Italy
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Social parasite turned Poet Laureate Father: Alexander Brodsky
Mother: Maria
Wife: Maria Sozzani (m. 1990, one daughter)
Daughter: Anna Maria Alexandra ("Maria", b. 9-Jun-1993)
Scholar: Poet-in-Residence, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1972-80)
US Poet Laureate (1991-92)
Nobel Prize for Literature 1987
Social Parasitism Five years labor, 1964-65 (commuted)
Exiled 4-Jun-1972 from Russia
Naturalized US Citizen 1977
Open Heart Surgery (1979)
Heart Bypass Operation
Heart Bypass Operation (1987)
Russian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
Author of books:
Selected Poems (1973, poetry, trans. George L. Kline)
A Part of Speech (1980, poetry)
History of the Twentieth Century (1986)
To Urania (1988, poetry)
Less Than One (1986, essays)
Watermark (1992, essays)
On Grief and Reason (1996, essays)
So Forth (1996, poetry)
Collected Poems in English (2000, poetry)
Nativity Poems (2001, poetry)
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