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- Born
- May 25, 1934
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Broadside authors and artists : an illustrated biographical directory
- 2.aalbc.com/authors/Jay-WrightRetrieved 2026-10-05
- May 25, 1934
- Birthplace
- Albuquerque
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Freebase Data Dumps
- 2.Stated in Broadside authors and artists : an illustrated biographical directory
- Albuquerque
- Citizenship
- Occupation
- poet
2
Sources- 1.Stated in poets.orgRetrieved 2022-05-18
- 2.Stated in Broadside authors and artists : an illustrated biographical directory
- , playwright
- , writer
1
- +2 more
- poet
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley(until 1961)
- , Rutgers University(until 1966)
- , Union Theological Seminary(1961–1962)
- Employer
- Languages spoken, written or signed
Overview
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61 statements · 72% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Awards
- American Book Awards(2006)
- Bollingen Prize(2005)
1
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards(2002)
1
- PEN New England Award(2000)
1
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets(1996)
- MacArthur Fellows Program(1986)
- Guggenheim Fellowship(1974)
1
- Field of work
- poetry
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-18
- drama
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-18
- dramatic game
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-18
- essay
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-18
- creative and professional writing
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-18
- music
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-18
- bass guitar performance
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-18
- jazz
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-19
- poetry
On other databases
24 identifiers linking Jay Wright across the web's reference databases
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID12058863h
- BIBSYS ID90246905
- BNB person ID (OBSOLETE)WrightJay1934-
- Europeana entityagent/base/72331
- FAST ID1441910
- Freebase ID/m/05tb1j
- GND ID122736745
- Guggenheim fellows IDjay-wright
- IdRef ID028834887
- ISNI000000007830315X
- J9U entity ID987007344986905171
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79115940
- Libris-URIkhwz2xs351jbffl
- MacArthur Fellows Program ID291
- Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID074040448
- NL CR AUT IDola20241243802
- NUKAT IDn2015122041
- Poetry Foundation IDjay-wright
- Poets.org poet IDjay-wright
- SELIBR ID266133
- SNAC ARK IDw6gm8tsn
- VIAF cluster ID79053633
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJppDjG3FPFykgCDvw63Qq
- Yale LUX IDperson/84eb6572-1f3b-4c96-a0ba-5bc09e0d6c6e