Bright Ambush

New York: John Day Company, (1934).

Price: $125.00

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with modest sunning at the extremities, and very slight nicking at the crown. Author's first book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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Item #98106 Bright Ambush. Audrey WURDEMANN.

Audrey Wurdemann
birth name: Audrey Wurdemann
born: 1/1/1911
died: 5/20/1960

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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