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    James Wright

    James Arlington Wright was born on December 13, , in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father worked for fifty years at a glass factory, and his mother left school at fourteen to work in a laundry; neither attended school beyond the eighth grade. While in high school in , Wright suffered a nervous breakdown and missed a year of school. When he graduated in , a year late, he joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in Japan during the American occupation. He then attended Kenyon College on the G.I. Bill, and studied beneath John Crowe Ransom. While there, he also befriended future fellow poet Robert Mezey. Wright graduated cum laude and Phi beta Kappa in Wright traveled to Austria, where, on a Fulbright Fellowship, he studied the works of Theodor Storm and Georg Trakl at the University of Vienna. He returned to the U.S. and earned master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Washington, studying with Theodore Roethke and Stanley Kunitz. He went on to teach at The Universi

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    Born in Martins Ferry, Ohio to a glass factory worker and a laundress -- neither of whom were educated beyond the eighth grade -- James Wright drew on his life experiences of poverty, nature, industry, and social inequalities to produce the kind of poetry that would eventually lead to a pris Prize. "I have written about the things I am deeply concerned with," he once said, "crickets outside my window, cold and hungry old men, ghosts in the twilight, horses in a field, a red-haired child in her mother's arms, a feeling of desolation in the fall, some cities I've known."

    Wright once told an interviewer that he grew interested in poetry "At age eleven�when a friend 'started to teach me Latin. He gave me the collected works of Lord Byron.'" Wright was so inspired that he wrote his first poem right then and there; "Fortunately," he said, "(it) has been lost."

    His home on a small farm just outside a poor steel mill town was full of enough contrast and inspiration, though, to contin

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    Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet James Wright came to prominence in with The Green Wall, a volume of poems which was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He has been called:

    Wright was born December 13th in Martins Ferry, Ohio, to a glass factory worker father and a laundry worker mother. His graduation from school was a year late because he had missed one year’s schooling due to a nervous breakdown. He joined the Army in , serving in Japan. After his army service he returned to education, graduating with honours from Kenyon College, where he studied English and Russian literature. He wrote prolifically during this time and won the Robert Frost Poetry Prize. After marrying Liberty Kardules he, and his wife, went to Vienna where he studied the works of Theodor Storm and George Traki at the University of Vienna. His higher education concluded with the acquisition of a master’s degree and a doctoral degree from the University of Washington. After making his literary debut with