![]() ![]() ![]() While in Austerlitz, she also met the photographer Molly Malone Cook. Norma Millay agreed and Oliver ended up spending several years there, organizing Edna St Vincent Millay’s papers. Edna St Vincent Millay was an early influence and, while in high school, Oliver wrote to the late poet’s sister, Norma, asking if she could visit Millay’s house in Austerlitz, New York. Oliver was a native of Maple Hills Heights in suburban Cleveland, and endured what she called a “dysfunctional” family in part by writing poems and building huts of sticks and grass in the nearby woods. “Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward,” Stephen Dobyns wrote of her in the New York Times. ![]() Her fans ranged from fellow poets Stanley Kunitz and Rita Dove to Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush. In 1998, she received the Lannan literary award for lifetime achievement. She won the Pulitzer in 1984 for American Primitive and the National Book award in 1992 for New and Selected Poems. Her poetry books included White Pine, West Wind and the anthology Devotions, which came out in 2017. ![]()
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