Louise Bogan was an American poet born on August 11, 1897 in Maine. She was a prolific writer, publishing four collections of poetry and numerous essays and reviews. Her work was highly acclaimed and she was awarded the National Book Award for Poetry in 1945. She was also a respected literary critic and served as poetry editor for The New Yorker from 1931 to 1969. Her net worth, biography, age, height, family and career updates are available online.
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American poet, translator, and literary critic whose best-known works include Body of This Death and Dark Summer. She became the fourth United States Poet Laureate in 1945.
She attended Boston University, but left school after a year to marry a United States Army corporal.
During the 1930s, she worked as a poetry editor for The New Yorker.
Her first marriage to Corporal Curt Alexander lasted only two years. In 1943, she married fellow writer Raymond Holden; however, after twelve years, this marriage also ended in divorce.
She was a friend of poet W.H. Auden.
