[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fSUZZwupirAUKI5Da4DU_dlju6Y4SisOBZEC7tqzeXuA":3,"$fDOGgPC1_kL_Qt_lp1RVJZBoyWdEdXxl8JUn9CRMYSEM":18},{"author":4,"tags":13},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":12},17881,"Conrad Aiken","C",74,"Selected Poems, published in 1929, gathered Conrad Aiken's verse into a collection that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, marking a formal recognition of work he had been building across more than a decade of sustained literary effort.\n\nAiken was born in Savannah on August 5, 1889, and grew up to pursue his education at the Middlesex School before continuing on to Harvard University. From those foundations he developed into a writer of considerable range, working not only as a poet but also as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and literary critic. He wrote throughout his career in English, producing work that crossed genres and sustained his presence in American letters over several decades.\n\nThe honors that accumulated around his name reflected the breadth of that sustained output. Beyond the Pulitzer, Aiken received the Bollingen Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was named United States Poet Laureate and received the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets — a record of recognition that spanned the major institutions of American literary life and extended well into the latter half of the twentieth century.\n\nAiken died on August 17, 1973, in the city where he had been born, Savannah, having lived eighty-four years that took him from the American South through the educational corridors of New England and across a long career that never settled into a single form. Poet, novelist, critic, dramatist — the categories accumulated without any one of them fully containing him. That restlessness is perhaps best measured not in summary but in the concrete fact of the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, an honor conferred by his peers in recognition of a career lived almost entirely in the act of writing.","Selected Poems, published in 1929, gathered Conrad Aiken's verse into a collection that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, marking a formal recognition of work he had been building across more than a decade of sustained literary effort.","conrad-aiken",null,[14],{"tag_id":15,"tag_name":16,"tag_count":17},119,"death",5,{"quotes":19,"pagination":82},[20,28,34,40,46,52,58,64,70,76],{"id":21,"quote_text":22,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":12},2944609,"Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked. And death was observed with sudden cries, And birth with laughter and pain. 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