Glück, Louise (1943–)
Glück, Louise (1943–)
American poet. Name variations: Louise Elisabeth Gluck. Born April 22, 1943, in New York, NY; dau. of Daniel Gluck (inventor of the X-acto knife) and Beatrice (Grosby) Gluck; attended Sarah Lawrence College, 1962; graduate of Columbia University, 1965; m. Charles Hertz (div.); m. John Dranow (writer and vice president of New England Culinary Institute), 1977 (div.); children: Noah Benjamin.
Began teaching English at Williams College in Massachusetts (1983); served as poet laureate consultant in poetry of the Library of Congress (2003–2004); poetry includes Firstborn (1968), The House on Marshland (1975), Teh (1976), The Garden (1976), Descending Figure (1980), The Triumph of Achilles (1985), Ararat (1990), The First Five Books of Poems (1997), Vita Nova (1999), The Seven Ages (2001), and The Wild Iris (1992), for which she won the William Carlos Williams Award and a Pulitzer Prize; nonfiction includes Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994). Received the Bollingen Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.