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born: 3/1/1920
died: 7/5/1991
born as: Howard Nemerov

American poet, novelist, and critic whose poetry, marked by irony and self-deprecatory wit, is often about nature. In 1978 Nemerov received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, which appeared in 1977. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature