Louis Simpson (born March 27, 1923 in Jamaica) is a United States poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road. March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is a written art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ...

His father was a lawyer of Scottish descent, and his mother Russian. At 17 he emigrated to the United States and began attending Columbia University. During World War II, from 1943 to 1945 he was a member of the 101st Airborne Division and would fight in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. After the end of the war he attened the University of Paris. Jump to: navigation, search A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law and in other forms of dispute resolution. ... Timeline of Scottish history Caledonia List of not fully sovereign nations Subdivisions of Scotland National parks (Scotland) Traditional music of Scotland Flower of Scotland Wars of Scottish Independence National Trust for Scotland Historic houses in Scotland Castles in Scotland Museums in Scotland Abbeys and priories in Scotland Gardens in Scotland... Jump to: navigation, search Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Shoulder sleeve patch of the United States Army 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ...

He first book was The Arrivistes, published in 1949. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia and taught there, as well as University of California, Berkeley, and the Stony Brook University. Jump to: navigation, search 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Jump to: navigation, search Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Jump to: navigation, search University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... Jump to: navigation, search Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU) or the University at Stony Brook (USB), or the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), located in Stony Brook, New York, USA, is one of the premier public universities in the United States with more than...

Other awards that he has received are the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 and the Prix de Rome. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Prix de Rome is a scholarship for students of the arts. ...

He currently lives on the north shore of Long Island near the Stony Brook School.

Selected works

• The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001
• Nombres et poussière; There You Are (1995)
• Ships Going Into the Blue: Essays and Notes on Poetry (1994)
• In the Room We Share (1990)
• Collected Poems (1988)
• The Character of the Poet (1986)
• People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-83 (1983)
• The Best Hour of the Night (1983)
• A Company of Poets (1981)
• Caviare at the Funeral (1980)
• Armidale (1979)
• A Revolution in Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell (1978)
• Searching for the Ox (1976)
• Three on the Tower (1975)
• Adventures of the Letter I (1971)
• Selected Poems (1965)
• At the End of the Open Road, Poems (1963)

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References

• "Louis Simpson". The Academy of American Poets. URL accessed on 7 August 2005.
• Louis Simpson at the NNDB