About
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote Heart's Needle and The Boy Made of Meat. He sometimes wrote under the pen name of S.S. Gardons.
Before Fame
He graduated from the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop in the early 1950s.
Trivia
He published poems in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.
Family Life
He grew up in Pennsylvania. He married his fourth wife, Kathleen Ann Brown, in 1985.
Associated With
He was influenced by the work of Ernest Hemingway.
