Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken was born in 1889 in Savannah, Georgia; at eleven he lost both his parents, whose bodies he discovered, and he was raised by relatives in Massachusetts. A friend of T. S. Eliot at Harvard, he produced more than fifty books, poems, novels and stories, and brought Emily Dickinson to wider notice by editing a selection of her poems in 1924. The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to him in 1930 for his own selected poems. After years in England, he spent his winters in Savannah, in the house next door to that of his childhood, and died there in 1973.

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• Short storiesSilent Snow, Secret SnowConrad Aiken · 1932Literature