last year, 90-year-old American poet Eleanor Ross Taylor probably thought her days of winning literary prizes were over. Not so: Taylor has just been announced as the winner of the American Poetry Foundation's $100,000 (£65,000) Ruth Lilly award for a poet "whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition".Born in 1920 in North Carolina, Taylor has published six collections of poetry, from her debut in 1960, Wilderness of Ladies, to last year's Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, and has received awards including the Shelley memorial prize, the Library of Virginia's literary award for poetry and a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
from The Guardian: Little-known 90-year-old wins $100,000 poetry award
also The Guardian: Disappearing Act by Eleanor Ross Taylor
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