Jorie Graham
- January 4, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Jorie Graham |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | May 9, 1950(1950-05-09) |
| Age | 74 |
| Birthplace | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Taurus |
Jorie Graham Biography
| Name | Jorie Graham |
| Birthday | May 9 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | New York |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Taurus |
| Parents | Beverly Pepper, Curtis Bill Pepper |
| Spouse | Peter M. Sacks , James Galvin |
| Children(s) | Emily Galvin |
Jorie Graham is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on May 9, 1950 in New York, United States. Poet who took home her 1996 Pulitzer Prize for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994. Other poems are San Sepolcro, Salmon, and Spoken from the Hedgerows.
She was motivated to write poems after hearing the reading of T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Jorie Graham (born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation.” She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.
Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including notable volumes like The End of Beauty, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, and P L A C E. She has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990. She is widely anthologized and her poetry is the subject of many essays, including Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry (2005). The Poetry Foundation considers Graham’s third book, The End of Beauty (1987), to have been a “watershed” book in which Graham first used the longer verse line for which she is best known. Graham’s many honors include a Whiting Award (1985), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, The Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Whiting Award. The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her collection of poetry P L A C E won the 2012 Forward Poetry Prize for best collection, becoming the first American woman ever to win one of the UK’s most prestigious poetry accolades. P L A C E was also shortlisted for the 2012 T S Eliot Prize. In 2013, Graham became only the third American to win the International Nonino Prize. In 2015, From the New World: Selected Poems 1976-2014—a collection from all prior eleven volumes plus new work—was published by HarperCollins/Ecco Press. In 2016 From the New World won the LA Times Book Award for poetry.
She divorced and got married to William Graham and James Galvin before marrying poet Peter M. Sacks in 2000.
Jorie Graham Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jorie Graham is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jorie Graham 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She was a student at New York University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
She was the President of The Academy of American Poets during the late 1990s and the early 2000s.
Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950 to Curtis Bill Pepper, a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for Newsweek magazine, and the sculptor Beverly Stoll Pepper. She and her brother John Randolph Pepper were raised in Rome, Italy. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, but was expelled for participating in student protests. She completed her undergraduate work as a film major at New York University, and became interested in poetry during that time. (She claims that her interest was sparked while walking past M.L. Rosenthal’s classroom and overhearing the last couplet of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ). After working as a secretary, she later went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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In 2017, Graham received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry, recipients are nominated and elected by a majority vote of the Academy’s Board of Chancellors. She won the 2018 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Fast.
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What kind of poet is Jorie Graham?
Jorie Graham
Nationality| American
Occupation| poet
Spouse(s)| William Graham (divorced) James Galvin ( m. 1983; div.
1999) Peter M. Sacks ( m. 2000)
Children| 1
How old is Jorie Graham?
72 years (May 9, 1950)