| Mona Van Duyn  AKA Mona Jane Van Duyn
Born: 9-May-1921
Birthplace: Waterloo, IA
Died: 1-Dec-2004
Location of death: University City, MO
Cause of death: Cancer - Bone
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: To See, To Take Husband: Jarvis A. Thurston (university professor, m. 1943)
University: BA, Iowa State Teachers College (1942)
University: MA, University of Iowa (1943)
Professor: Washington University in St. Louis (1950-)
Perspective Co-founder, 1947-60, with her husband Jarvis Thurston
National Book Award for Poetry 1971 for To See, To Take
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1971 (with Richard Wilbur)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1991 poetry for Near Changes
St. Louis Walk of Fame
Nervous Breakdown 1949
Risk Factors: Depression
Author of books:
Valentines to the Wide World (1959, poetry)
A Time of Bees (1964, poetry)
To See, To Take (1970, poetry)
Bedtime Stories (1972, poetry)
Merciful Disguises (1973, poetry)
Near Changes (1990, poetry)
Firefall (1993, poetry)
If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982 (1993, poetry)
Firefall (1994, poetry)
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