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The Author. Edwin Arlington Robinson, 60, has three times (1921, 1924, 1927) been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, in 1929 was given the gold medal of the American Institute of Arts & Letters. Born in Maine, he lives in Manhattan in the winter, spends summers at artistic MacDowell Colony (Petersboro, N. H.) where he writes most of his poetry. Shy, scholarly, academic, he is a 32nd degree bachelor, is famed as most reticent, most elusive, least known U. S. man of letters. Other books: Captain Craig, The Alan Against the Sky, Merlin, Lancelot, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, Dionysus in Doubt.
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