About
Former United States Poet Laureate who received the 1971 National Book Award for a poetry collection entitled To See, To Take. For another collection, Near Changes, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Before Fame
She studied at Iowa State Teachers College and at the State University of Iowa.
Trivia
Her late poetic works include Firefall and If It Be Not I, both published in 1994.
Family Life
She grew up in Eldora, Iowa. She married Jarvis Thurston in 1943.
Associated With
She was influenced by the work of author Virginia Woolf.
