Lynda Hull

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Full Name	Lynda Hull
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Dec 5, 1954(1954-12-05)
Age	70
Date Of Death	1994-03-29
Birthplace	Newark
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Lynda Hull Biography

Lynda Hull is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on December 5, 1954 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. American poet, four-time Pushcart Prize winner. Her most well-known works are Ghost Money and The Only World. For her 1991 poetry collection Star Ledger, she received both the American poet and four-time Pushcart Prize recipient whose best-known works include Ghost Money and The Only World. She received both a Carl Sandburg Award and an Edwin Ford Piper Award for a 1991 poetry collection entitled Star Ledger. Award as well as an Edwin Ford Piper Award.

She was greatly influenced and influenced by the poetry of She was greatly influenced by the poetic work of Hart Crane..

Hull was born and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. At the age of 16 she won a scholarship to Princeton University, but ran away from home. During the next ten years she struggled with heroin addiction on and off and lived in many places including various Chinatowns following a marriage to an immigrant from Shanghai. In the early 1980s Hull started studying at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and earned her B.A., and then her M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She also reconnected with her family during this time and met the poet David Wojahn, whom she married in 1984.

In his review of her Collected Poems, Craig Morgan Teicher described Hull’s poetry as, “lush, intensely lyrical evocations of the underbelly of American urban life, driven by a sense of inevitable loss and degradation but also by a powerful attachment to momentary beauty.” In a 2008 interview with Gulf Coast, David Wojahn said of her study and work, “She steeped herself in the Romantics, especially Keats and Shelley, and she knew Hart Crane almost by heart. I’m still in awe of that acuity, and of how she used it to do honor to a broken world, post-apocalyptic, filled with ruins and ruined lives. And she gave such dignity to that landscape and those lives. She really did have an incredible lyric gift, one that no other poet of my generation possessed.” Poet David St. John wrote that “Of all the poets of my generation, Lynda Hull remains the most heartbreaking, merciful, and consoling.”

David Wojahn, her husband and poet, published her third collection, The Only World after her death.

Lynda Hull Net Worth

Lynda Hull is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lynda Hull 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At sixteen years old, she fled her home to escape poverty after being awarded a Princeton University scholarship. Years later, she earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arkansas.

She was just a few months away from her 40th birthday when she was involved in a car accident.

Lynda Hull (December 5, 1954 – March 29, 1994) was an American poet. She had published two collections of poetry when she died in a car accident in 1994. A third, The Only World (Harper Perennial, 1995), was published posthumously by her husband, the poet David Wojahn, and was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. Collected Poems By Lynda Hull (Graywolf Press), was published in 2006.

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Lynda Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lynda Hull celebrates birthday on December 5 of every year.

Top Facts about Lynda Hull

1. Lynda Hull was an American poet born in 1954.
2. She published three collections of poetry during her lifetime.
3. Hull received numerous awards and fellowships for her work.
4. Her poetry often explored themes of urban life and poverty.
5. Hull tragically died in a car accident at the age of 40.
6. She taught creative writing at the University of Vermont.
7. Hull’s work has been praised for its vivid imagery and musicality.
8. Her poems have been featured in various literary journals and anthologies.
9. Hull was influenced by poets such as Sylvia Plath and Theodore Roethke.
10. Her legacy continues to inspire contemporary poets today.