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    John Ashbery

    John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, on July 28,

    Ashbery was the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Breezeway (Ecco, ); Quick Question (Ecco, ); Planisphere (HarperCollins, ); A Worldly Country (Ecco, ); Where Shall I Wander (HarperCollins, ); Chinese Whispers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); Your Name Here (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); Girls on the Run: A Poem (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); Wakefulness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); Can You Hear, Bird (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); And the Stars Were Shining (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ); Hotel Lautrémont (Alfred A. Knopf, ); Flow Chart (Alfred A. Knopf, ); and April Galleons (Penguin, ).

    During his career, Ashbery received nearly every major American award for poetry. His collection A Wave (Viking, ) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking, ) received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle

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    John Ashbery: Biography

    John Lawrence Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York on, July 28, His mother, Helen Lawrence, was a biology teacher, while his father, Chester Frederick Ashbery, worked as a farmer. Ashbery grew up on a fruit farm as a shy, sensitive, and gifted boy. His childhood was marked by a distant relationship with his father, who was prone to bouts of rage. Ashbery's father was often critical of his son's gentle nature and favored John Ashbery's younger sibling, Richard, for his athleticism and inclination toward more stereotypical manly activities such as sports and farming.

    Ashbery's childhood was further complicated by the stresses of the Great Depression, small-town boredom, and being bullied by local children. His confusion and shame over his sexual identity resulted in Ashbery's very secluded life and childhood.

    Tragedy hit Ashbery's life at twelve years old when his brother died from leukemia. It was an event that would mark his formative years and rema

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    Ashbery, John (Lawrence) (Jonas Berry)

    PERSONAL:

    Born July 28, , in Rochester, NY; son of Chester Frederick (a farmer) and Helen (a biology teacher) Ashbery. Education:Harvard University, B.A., ; Columbia University, M.A., ; graduate study at New York University,

    ADDRESSES:

    Office—Department of Languages and Literature, Bard College, P.O. Box , Annandaleon-Hudson, NY Agent—Georges Borchardt, Inc., East 57th St., New York, NY

    CAREER:

    Writer, critic, and editor. Worked as reference librarian for Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY; Oxford University Press, New York, NY, copywriter, ; McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY, copywriter, ; New York University, New York, NY, instructor in elementary French, ; Locus Solus, Lans-en-Vercors, France, editor, ; New York Herald-Tribune, European edition, Paris, France, art critic, ; Art International, Lugano, Switzerland, art critic, ; Art and Literature, Paris, editor, ; Art News, New York, NY, Paris correspondent,