About Joan Vincent Murray
Lived 1917 – 1942 (aged 24). Joan Vincent Murray was an American poet and writer.
Joan Vincent Murray (February 12, 1917 – January 4, 1942) was a Canadian American poet.
She studied at The New School, with W. H. Auden.
Her papers are at Smith College.
Awards 1947 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, selected by W. H. Auden
Works
Poems : 1917 - 1942 / Joan Murray. Ed. by Grant Code; with a foreword by W.H. Auden, New York : AMS Pr., 1971, Drafts, fragments, and poems : the complete poetry, Farnoosh Fathi (Ed.), John Ashbery (Foreword) New York : New York Review Books 2017,
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Who was Joan Vincent Murray?
American poet
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Joan Vincent Murray was born on 12 February 1917 in London.
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Joan Vincent Murray died on 4 January 1942 in Saranac Lake.
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Joan Vincent Murray was a poet and writer.
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Joan Vincent Murray was American.
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