About
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author whose works include The Burning Mountain and The Black Rock. He was associated with both the Imagist school and the Southern Agrarians.
Before Fame
He studied at Harvard University, but dropped out following the death of his father. His early literary works include Goblins and Pagodas (published in 1916) and Irradiations: Sand and Spray (published in 1915).
Trivia
He ended his own life in 1950 by drowning himself in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Family Life
His first marriage was to Daisy Arbuthnot. Following his divorce, he wed Charlie May Simon, a children's book author.
Associated With
He and Ezra Pound were literary contemporaries and fellow Imagist poets.
