American Poets
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an american poet and novelist. She was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in the USA in October 27, 1932 and died in February 11, 1963.
Allen Ginsberg
Ginsberg was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson. His father Louis Ginsberg was a poet and a high school teacher.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York on March 24, 1919. His mother, née Clemence Albertine Mendes-Monsanto was of French and Sephardic-Portuguese heritage.
John Ashbery
Ashbery was born in July 28, 1927 in Rochester, New York and raised on a farm near Lake Ontario; his brother died when they were children. Ashbery was educated at Deerfield Academy.
Virginia Hamilton Adair
Mary Virginia Hamilton was born in February 28, 1913, in the Bronx, New York City, raised in Montclair, New Jersey and died in September 16 2004, Claremont, California.
