Elizabeth Bishop
1911–1979 (age 68)
Poet/Writer
Biography
Elizabeth Bishop, born in 1911, earned acclaim as a meticulous observer whose poems, essays, and translations brought clarity and depth to the intricacies of daily life, capturing distant landscapes with precise and lyrical language.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, she continued to explore the world through writing until her death in 1979, and she now rests at Hope Cemetery, where readers still find inspiration in her articulate and compassionate verse.