Leonard Bacon Writer

Leonard Bacon was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. He graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until his retirement in 1923. In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym 'Autholycus'. He and his family lived in Florence, Italy from 1927 to 1932. He won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1942.

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Birth dateMay 26, 1887
Birth place
Solvay New York , United States , New York
Nationality
United States
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1954
Place of death
Rhode Island , Peace Dale Rhode Island , United States

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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