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Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911. She lived for many years in Brazil with her partner, Lota de Macedo Soares. On Soares' death by suicide, she began to spend more time in the US and became poet-in-residence at Harvard University. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize (1956). She died in 1979.

Books by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems

The definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets.

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Prose

A centenary edition of the prose of Elizabeth Bishop, one of the finest American poets of the twentieth century.

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