A celebrated American poet of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1951 and 1955, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.

Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955. Wikipedia 

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wallace-stevens