Lisel Mueller
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Lisel Mueller (born 1924) is a prize-winning American poet.
She was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924 and immigrated to America at the age of 15. her father, Fritz Neumann, was a professor at Evansville College. Her mother died in 1953.[1] "Though my family landed in the Midwest, we lived in urban or suburban environments," she once wrote. She and her husband, Paul Mueller (d. 2001) built a home in Lake Forest, Illinois in the 1960s, where she lives today.[2] [3]
She graduated from the University of Evansville in 1944 and has taught at the University of Chicago, Elmhurst College in Illinois, and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.[1]
Mueller has written book reviews for the Chicago Daily News.[1]
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[edit] Books
[edit] Poetry
- Alive Together: New & Selected Poems (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize;
- Learning to Play by Ear (1990)
- Waving from Shore (1989)
- Second Language (1986)
- The Need to Hold Still (1980), (National Book Award)
- Voices from the Forest (1977)
- The Private Life (1975) Lamont Poetry Selection
- Dependencies (1965)
[edit] Translation
. She has published several volumes of translation:
- Circe's Mountain by Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1990)
[edit] Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1997) for Alive Together: New & Selected Poems
- National Book Award (1981) for The Need to Hold Still
- Carl Sandburg Award
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2002)
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c [1]National Names DataBase (NNDB) Web site, Web page titled "Lisel Mueller", accessed October 29, 2006
- ^ [2]Western Illinois University Web site, Web page titled "Lisel Mueller", accessed October 29, 2006
- ^ [3]]Academy of American Poets Web site, Web page titled "Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller 1992", accessed October 29, 2006
