Little-known 90-year-old wins $100,000 poetry award
Eleanor Ross Taylor, born in 1920 in North Carolina, has been given the American Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly award
With most of her work out of print until last year, 90-year-old American poet Eleanor Ross Taylor probably thought her days of winning literary prizes were over. Not so: Taylor has just been announced as the winner of the American Poetry Foundation's $100,000 (£65,000) Ruth Lilly award for a poet "whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition".
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 15 April, 2010
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