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May 26, 1887 Solvay, New York, United States Died on 01 Jan 1954 (aged 66)
American poet, translator, and literary critic
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About Leonard Bacon Poet
- Leonard Bacon was an American poet, translator, and literary critic.
- The great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon, he graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until his retirement in 1923.
- In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym 'Autholycus'.
- He and his family lived in Florence, Italy from 1927 to 1932.
- He won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture.
- He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1942.
