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Mary Oliver (1935–2019) was an American poet, writer, and novelist. Born in Maple Heights, she was educated at Ohio State University and Vassar College. Her professional career included employment at Bucknell University, and she worked in Petaluma. Oliver wrote in English and focused on poetry and literature. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the National Book Award.
Oliver’s body of work includes titles such as *Goldfinches*, *No voyage*, and *Marriage bureau*. She died of cancer in Hobe Sound. Her writings have been recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1935
- Died
- 2019
- Works
- 74
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
- Goldfinches
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
- No voyage
- ... Marriage bureau
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 304
- Total plays
- 5,387
Tags
There are two artists who share this name: 1) Mary Oliver (born in La Jolla, California) is a player of viola, violin, and Hardanger fiddle. She received her Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco State University before going on to get her doctorate in Theory and Practice of Improvisation from the University of California, San Diego. 2) Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mary+
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,802x
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 29,177x
- An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments
· 1992 · cited 24,721x
- Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes
· 1991 · cited 22,473x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
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Quotes
- “To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”
- “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
- “And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful — how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.”
- “Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.”
- “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
- “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1935-09-10 ) September 10, 1935, Maple Heights, Ohio , U.S.
- Died
- January 17, 2019 (2019-01-17) (aged 83), Hobe Sound, Florida , U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- Vassar College , Ohio State University
- Notable awards
- National Book Award (1992), Pulitzer Prize (1984)
- Partner
- Molly Malone Cook
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by wonderment at the natural environment, vivid imagery, and unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared the best-selling poet in the United States.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mary Oliver” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.