John Ashbery

John Ashbery (1927–2017) was born in Rochester, New York. He was the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. The winner of many other prizes and awards both nationally and internationally, he received a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Barack Obama at the White House, in 2012.