Author
Mary Oliver
Poet
Mary Oliver was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992, and who by 2007 was the best-selling poet in the United States. She wrote out of long solitary walks, and her poems keep to plain language and close attention: a grasshopper, a pond, a morning. That directness is why she is quoted at funerals and weddings more than almost any modern poet, and why critics underrated her for years.
