Louise Gluck Biography

Louise Gluck Profile

Name: Louise Gluck

Full Name: Louise Elisabeth Gluck

Birth Date: April 22, 1943 (Thursday)

Birth Place: New York, United States

Age: 77 Years

Zodiac Sign: Taurus (The Bull) 

Nationality: American

Parents: Daniel Gluck (Father), Beatrice Gluck (Mother)

Spouse (s): Charles Hertz, Jr, John Dranow

Children: Noah Dranow (Son)

Education: 1. Columbia University School of the Arts (1967-1968)

                  2. Sarah Lawrence College (1962)

                  3. George W Hewlett High School (1961)

Notable Works

1. Firstborn (1968)
2. The House on Marshland (1975)
3. The Garden (1976)
4. Descending Figure (1980)
5. The Triumph of Achilles (1985)
6. Ararat (1990)
7. Proofs and theories (1994)
8. First Four Books Of Poems (1995)
9. Meadowlands (1996)
10. Vita Nova (1999)
11. The Seven Ages (2001)
12. October (2004)
13. Averno (2006)
14. A Village Life: Poems (2009)
15. Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014)
16. American Originality: Essays on Poetry (2017)

Awards and Achievements

1. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1970)
2. Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts (1975)
3. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1979-80)
4. American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1981)
5. Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts (1987)
6. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988-89)
7. Honorary Doctorate, Williams College (1993)
8. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member (1993)
9. Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris (1993)
10. Vermont State Poet (1994-1998)
10. Honorary Doctorate, Middlebury College (1996)
11. American Academy of Arts and Letters, Elected Member (1996)
12. Lannan Literary Award (1999)
13. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 50th Anniversary Medal, MIT (2001)
14. Bollingen Prize (2001)
15. Poet Laureate of the United States (2003-2004)
16. Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets (2008)
17. Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry (2010)
18. American Academy of Achievement, Elected Member (2012)
19. American Philosophical Society, Elected Member (2014)
20. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry (2015)
21. National Humanities Medal (2015)
22. Tranströmer Prize (2020)
23. Nobel Prize in Literature (2020)