INFORMATION
| Artist Birtday : | 13/12/1927(Age 98) |
| Born In : | American |
James Wright was born and spent an unhappy childhood in Martins Ferry, Ohio. In 1946, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and participated in the occupation of Japan. Following his discharge, he attended Kenyon College on the GI Bill and published poems in the Kenyon Review. He graduated in 1965. Wright subsequently spent a Fulbright year in Vienna and obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Washington.
Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse that was awarded the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize. But by the early 1960s, Wright, increasingly influenced by the Spanish language surrealists, had dropped fixed meters. His transformation achieved its maximum expression with the publication of the seminal The Branch Will Not Break (1963), which positioned Wright as curious counterpoint to the Beats and New York Schools, which predominated on the American coasts.
