Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.
Sharon Olds | |
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Sharon Olds in Ezra Pound's birth house, Hailey, Idaho | |
| Born | Sharon Stuart Cobb November 19, 1942 San Francisco, California, US |
| Alma mater | Stanford (1964, BA) Columbia (1972, Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Spouse |
David Douglas Olds
(m. 1969–1997) |
| Partner | Carl Wallman |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, T. S. Eliot Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award |
| Website | www |
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