Louis Simpson

At The End of the Open Road

originally published:
Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press
1963

We offered this copy of the first edition in 2010.

awards:

  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry(1964)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 3/27/1923
died: 09/14/2012
born as: Louis Aston Marantz Simpson

Jamaican-born American poet and critic, notable for his marked development in poetic style. In 1964 he won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his volume At The End of the Open Road, Poems (1963) - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Images:

Photograph of Louis Simpson from the first edition of <i>Caviare at the Funeral</i>