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Date of Birth
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01-February-1927
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Place of Birth
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Providence
(Providence County, Rhode Island, United States of America, Area code 401, 02905)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Kinnell, Galway
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Profession
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Writer, Poet, Author, Novelist
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Galway Kinnell is an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.
An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps".
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