Conrad Aiken

1889–1973 (age 84)

Poet/Writer

Biography

Conrad Aiken, born in 1889, was a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and writer whose lyrical verse, diaries, and essays explored the inner life with unusual empathy and imaginative depth, influencing generations of readers and students.

He spent many years teaching and writing in the South, and Bonaventure Cemetery now shelters a beloved figure whose words continue to whisper across decades.

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