Marya Zaturenska

Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.^[1]

Life

She was born in Kiev and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school. She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University; she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in library science.^[2] She met her husband, the prize-winning poet Horace Gregory there; they married in 1925.^[1] Her two children were Patrick and Joanna Gregory. She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold Morning Sky, and she edited six anthologies of poetry.

Her work appeared in The New York Times,^[3] Poetry Magazine,^[4]

Awards

• 1938 Pulitzer Prize

Works

Poetry

• "The White Dress", Bob Richmond, 6-20-2001

• Threshold and Heart. The Macmillan company. 1934. 
• Cold Morning Sky. Macmillan. 1937. 
• The Golden Mirror. New York: The Macmillan company. 1944. 
• Selected poems. Grove Press. 1954. 
• Collected Poems. Viking Press. 1965. 
• The Hidden Waterfall: poems. Vanguard Press. 1974. 
• Robert S. Phillips, ed (2002). New selected poems of Marya Zaturenska. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815607175. 

Editor

• Christina Georgina Rossetti (1970). Marya Zaturenska. ed. Selected poems of Christina Rossetti. Macmillan. 

Non-fiction

• Mary Beth Hinton, ed (2002). The diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815607144. 
• Marya Zaturenska, Horace Gregory (1946). A History of American poetry, 1900-1940. Harcourt, Brace and Co.. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "MARYA ZATURENSKA, LYRIC POET RECEIVED PULITZER PRIZE IN '38". The New York Times. January 21, 1982. http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/21/obituaries/marya-zaturenska-lyric-poet-received-pulitzer-prize-in-38.html. 
2. ^ Sanford V. Sternlicht (2004). "Marya Zaturenska". The tenement saga: the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers. Terrace Books. ISBN 9780299204846. http://books.google.com/books?id=18J48gmmwrAC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=Marya+Zaturenska. 
3. ^ Zaturenska, Marya. The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=s&query=Marya+Zaturenska&srchst=p&submit.x=36&submit.y=7&submit=sub&hdlquery=&bylquery=Marya+Zaturenska&daterange=full&mon1=01&day1=01&year1=1981&mon2=06&day2=19&year2=2009. Retrieved May 12, 2010. 
4. ^ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/search.html?q=Marya%20Zaturenska&refinement=poetry_magazine&disp_type=Poetry%20Magazine

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Name	Zaturenska, Marya
Alternative names
Short description	American poet
Date of birth	1902
Place of birth
Date of death	1982
Place of death