*1921 US, New York City
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A.k.a. Richard Purdy Wilbur
American poet and literary translator, born March 1, 1921 in New York City, New York, USA, died October 14, 2017 in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. He was educated at Amherst College and Harvard. He graduated from Amherst College in 1942 and then served in the US Army from 1943 until 1945 during World War II. After the Army and graduate school at Harvard University, Wilbur taught at Wesleyan University for two decades and at Smith College for another decade. He is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Candide (The New Broadway Cast Recording) | Jim Dale, Andrea Martin, Harolyn Blackwell, Jason Danieley | 1997 | Album |
Candide | New York City Opera, Erie Mills • David Eisler • John Lankston, Joyce Castle • Scott Reeve • Jack Harrold • James Billings • Maris Clement, New York City Opera Chorus, New York City Opera Orchestra, John Mauceri, Harold Prince - Leonard Bernstein, Hugh Wheeler, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche | 1986 | Album |
Twentieth Century Poets In English: Nine Pulitzer Prize Poets Reading Their Own Poems | Archibald MacLeish, Peter Viereck, Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur, Robert Penn Warren, Stanley Kunitz, W. D. Snodgrass, Phyllis McGinley, Alan Dugan | 1963 | Compil. |