Audrey Wurdemann

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name = Audrey Wurdemann


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birthdate = Birth date|1911|1|1
birthplace = Seattle, WA, USA
deathdate = Death date and age|1960|5|20|1911|1|1
deathplace = Miami, FL, USA
occupation = Poet
nationality = American
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Audrey Wurdemann was an American poet, and the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry at the age of 24, for her collection "Bright Ambush". She was the great-great-granddaughter of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She never attended grammar school and entered high school at the age of 11. Her first collection of poetry, 'The House of Silk' was published when she was 16, sponsored by California poet George Sterling. She was a 1931 graduate of the University of Washington. She married poet and novelist Joseph Auslander in 1932, shortly after the death of his first wife, and moved to New York City, where he taught at Columbia. She subsequently collaborated with him on the novels 'My Uncle Jan' and 'The Islanders'.

Works

* "The House of Silk" (1927)
* "Bright Ambush" (1934, winner of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)
* "The Seven Sins" (1935)
* "Splendour in the Grass" (1936)
* "Testament of Love" (1938)

External Links

* [http://www.enotes.com/oca-encyclopedia/wurdemann-audrey Oxford Companion to American Literature]