1. Howard Nemerov was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990.
12 Facts About Howard Nemerov
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Howard Nemerov was born on February 29,1920, in New York City; his parents were David Howard Nemerov and Gertrude Russek.
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Young Howard Nemerov was raised in a sophisticated New York City environment where he attended the Society for Ethical Culture's Fieldston School.
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Howard Nemerov married in 1944, and after the war, having earned the rank of first lieutenant, returned to New York with his wife to complete his first book.
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Howard Nemerov then began teaching, first at Hamilton College and later at Bennington College, Brandeis University, and finally Washington University in St Louis, where he was Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence from 1969 until his death in 1991.
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Howard Nemerov's novels have been commended; they include The Homecoming Game, Federigo: Or the Power of Love, and The Melodramatists.
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Howard Nemerov received many awards and honors, among them fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and The Guggenheim Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the National Medal of Arts, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the St Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, and the first Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
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Howard Nemerov served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1963 and 1964, as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets beginning in 1976, and two terms as poet laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990.
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Howard Nemerov died of cancer in 1991 in University City, Missouri.
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Howard Nemerov wrote almost exclusively in fixed forms and meter.
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Howard Nemerov is compared to John Hollander and Philip Larkin.
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Howard Nemerov published a short story in the book Stories Selected from the Unexpected by Bennett Cerf under the pseudonym Joseph Cross called "Exchange of Men".