| Karl Shapiro  AKA Karl Jay Shapiro
Born: 10-Nov-1913
Birthplace: Baltimore, MD
Died: 14-May-2000
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Person, Place and Thing Military service: US Army (WWII, Pacific Theater) Father: Joseph Shapiro
Mother: Sarah Omansky Shapiro
Wife: Evalyn Katz (m. 1945, div. 1967, three children)
Wife: Teri Kovach (m. 31-Jul-1967)
Wife: Sophie Wilkins (wife #3)
University: University of Virginia (attended 1932-33)
University: Johns Hopkins University
Professor: Johns Hopkins University (1948-)
Professor: English, University of Nebraska (1956-)
Professor: University of Chicago (1966-68)
Professor: University of California at Davis (1968-86)
Poetry Editor (1950-56)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1945 for V-Letter and Other Poems
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1969 (with John Berryman)
Author of books:
Person, Place and Thing (1942, poetry)
V-Letter and Other Poems (1944, poetry)
Beyond Criticism (1953, criticism)
Poems of a Jew (1958, poetry)
In Defense of Ignorance (1960, criticism)
The Bourgeois Poet (1964, poetry)
White-Haired Lover (1968, poetry)
To Abolish Children (1968, poetry)
The Poetry Wreck (1975, poetry)
Adult Bookstore (1976, poetry)
Collected Poems, 1948�1978 (1978, poetry)
Reports of My Death (1990, memoir)
The Wild Card (1998, poetry)
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