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Biography Information about Pulitzer
Prize Winning Author: Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver originates from Cleveland,
Ohio where she was born in 1935. Her parents' names are
Edward William Oliver and Helen M. V. Oliver. Her father was
a teacher. Mary Oliver went to college at Ohio State
University, but she only stayed for one year. After that she
attended Vassar College, a prestigious women's college, well
known for its graduates in the arts particularly its writers
and actors. Oliver was strongly influenced by the New York
poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Oliver lived for some time in
Provincetown, Massachusetts. During the early 1980's, Mary
Oliver taught at Case Western Reserve University. In 1984,
her collection of poetry American Primitive won the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In 1986, she moved to Bucknell
University where she was honored with the title "Poet In
Residence." In 1991, she moved to Sweet Briar College in
Virginia where, at the time of this writing (1991), she
serves as the Margaret Banister Writer in Residence.
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