Bright Ambush
New York: John Day Company, (1934).
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with the usual modest sunning at the extremities, a faint spot on the front panel, and some tiny tears. Inscribed by the author: "For Lee, with my love. Audrey. A very special copy!" Author's first book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. If the author herself describes this as a "very special copy," who are we to argue?
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Audrey Wurdemann
birth name: Audrey Wurdemann
born: 1/1/1911
died: 5/20/1960
Biography
The youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - she won for her 1934 collection Bright Ambush when she was just 24 years old. Wurdemann married the poet and novelist Joseph Auslander in 1932, and in addition to her several volumes of poetry she also co-wrote a few novels with him. She died in 1960 when she was only 49.more