Karl Jay Shapiro

(1913-2000) lived in Lincoln. Poet, educator, recipient of 1945 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, known for producing some of the best war poetry ever by an American, edited literary magazine Prairie Schooner. Consult Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Poets 1880-1945, Second Series, Vol 48 (Gale, 1986) 399-405 and New York Times obituary, May 17, 2000, p. C-27 and American National Biography, Sup 1 (2002) 557-559.

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