| Richard Wilbur  AKA Richard Purdy Wilbur
Born: 1-Mar-1921
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 14-Oct-2017
Location of death: Belmont, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Second U.S. Poet Laureate Military service: US Army (infantry, WWII, European theater) Father: Lawrence Lazear Wilbur (portrait artist)
Mother: Helen Purdy
Brother: Lawrence
Wife: Mary Charlotte Hayes Ward (m. 20-Jun-1942, one daughter, three sons)
Daughter: Ellen Dickinson
Son: Christopher Hayes
Son: Nathan Lord
Son: Aaron Hammond
University: BA, Amherst College (1942)
University: MA, Harvard University (1947)
Teacher: Harvard University
Professor: English, Wesleyan University
US Poet Laureate 1987-88
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1957 for Things of This World
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1989 for New and Collected Poems
National Book Award for Poetry 1957 for Things of This World
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1971 (with Mona Van Duyn)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1952
National Medal of Arts 1994
Author of books:
The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (1947, poetry)
Ceremony and Other Poems (1950, poetry)
Things of This World: Poems (1956, poetry)
Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems (1961, poetry)
Loudmouse (1963, juvenile)
Walking to Sleep (1969, poetry)
Opposites (1973, juvenile)
The Mind Reader: New Poems (1976, poetry)
Responses: Prose Pieces 1953–1976 (1976, criticism)
New and Collected Poems (1987, poetry)
Mayflies (2000, poetry)
Collected poems, 1943-2004 (2004, poetry)
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