Poet John Ashbery

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John Ashbery

Living place: Rochester

Birthday: 28-7-1927 (97 years old)

Population of US 1927: 119,035,000

Global rank: #70437

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Who is Poet John Ashbery?
Postmodernist, Surrealist poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1,975 collection of poems, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. His other works include Tennis Oath, Some Trees, and Like Umbrellas Follow Rain.
He is an art critic for The New York Times and Newsweek.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He attended New York University and Columbia University. He published his first collection of poetry, Turandot and Other Poems, in 1953.

Family life info

He was born in Rochester, New York to Chester and Helen Ashbery. He later settled in New York City with his partner, David Kermani.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet John Ashbery?
W. H. Auden presented Ashbery with the 1956 Yale Childhood Prize.

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When was Poet John Ashbery born?
John Ashbery birthday 28-7-1927 (at the age of 97).
Where is Poet John Ashbery's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York- United States. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. John Ashbery's global rank is 70437 and whose rank is 520 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1927 is about 119,035,000 persons.
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Events in 1927 and 28-7

Events in US in the birth year of John Ashbery

  • Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are electrocuted at Dedham (Mass.) Prison despite worldwide protesting over weak evidence (Aug. 23).
  • The Holland Tunnel opens (Nov. 13) to connect Manhattan and Jersey City, N.J., giving cars a route under the Hudson River and an alternative to ferry boats.

Birthday John Ashbery (28-7) in history

  • Day 28-7 year 1540: Former UK Foreign Secretary Thomas Cromwell was executed for treason and heresy at Tower Hill. On this same day, King Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
  • Day 28-7 year 1750: The great German baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach passed away in Leipzig, Germany.
  • Day 28-7 year 1794: Robespierre, The French revolutionary leader, was taken to the guillotine.
  • Day 28-7 year 1821: Peru declared its independence from Spain.
  • Day 28-7 year 1868: The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which established the citizenship of African Americans and guaranteed due process of law, was ratified.
  • Day 28-7 year 1914: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, precipitating the start of World War I.
  • Day 28-7 year 1932: Herbert Hoover ordered Douglas MacArthur to evict the Bonus Marchers from their camps.
  • Day 28-7 year 2002: Nine Pennsylvania coal miners were rescued after 77 hours of being trapped in a mine shaft.
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