Louis Simpson

The Arrivistes

originally published:
New York
1949

awards:

  • First Book(1949)

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>