Editing Mark Strand (section)

== Biography ==
Strand was born in 1934 at [[Summerside, Prince Edward Island]], Canada,<ref name=poetsorg /> to Robert Joseph Strand and Sonia Apter. Raised in a secular [[Jews|Jewish]] family,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kevane|first1=Bridgette|title=What Is Missing|url=http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/70954/what-is-missing|work=[[Tablet Magazine]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=29 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Italie|first1=Hillel|title=Pulitzer laureate Mark Strand dies at 80|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/pulitzer-laureate-mark-strand-dies-at-80/|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=30 November 2014}}</ref> he spent his early years in North America and much of his adolescence in South and Central America. Strand graduated from [[Oakwood Friends School]] in 1951<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2014/11/30/pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-mark-strand-dies/19716085/|title=Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand dies at 80|agency=Associated Press|date=November 30, 2014|work=The Poughkeepsie Journal|access-date=July 6, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Shawn|first1=Wallace|title=Mark Strand, The Art of Poetry No. 77|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1070/the-art-of-poetry-no-77-mark-strand|magazine=[[The Paris Review]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=Fall 1998|volume=Fall 1998 |issue=148 }}</ref> and in 1957 earned his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Antioch College]] in Ohio.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|last1=Grimes|first1=William|title=Mark Strand, 80, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/nyregion/mark-strand-80-dies-pulitzer-winning-poet-laureate.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=29 November 2014|access-date=29 November 2014}}</ref> He then studied painting under [[Josef Albers]] at [[Yale University]], where he earned a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|B.F.A]] in 1959.<ref name=nyt/> On a [[U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission]] scholarship, Strand studied 19th-century Italian poetry in [[Florence]] in 1960–61.<ref name=nyt/> He attended the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]] at the [[University of Iowa]] the following year and earned a [[Master of Arts]] in 1962.<ref name=nyt/> In 1965 he spent a year in Brazil as a Fulbright Lecturer.<ref name=mspf>{{cite web|title=Mark Strand|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mark-strand|publisher=[[Poetry Foundation]]|access-date=3 December 2014}}</ref>

In 1981, Strand was elected a member of [[The American Academy of Arts and Letters]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Deceased Members |url=http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] |access-date=3 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726004624/http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |archive-date=July 26, 2011 }}</ref> He served as [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]] during the 1990–91 term.<ref>{{cite web | title=Poet Laureate Timeline: 1991-2000 | url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1991-2000.html | publisher=[[Library of Congress]] | year=2008 | access-date=1 January 2009}}</ref> In 1998, he left [[Johns Hopkins University]] to accept the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professorship of Social Thought at the [[Committee on Social Thought]] at the [[University of Chicago]]. From 2005 to his death, Strand taught literature and creative writing at [[Columbia University]], in New York City.<ref name=nyt/>

Strand received numerous awards, including a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] in 1987 and the 1999 [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]], for ''Blizzard of One''.<ref name=nyt/>

Strand died of [[liposarcoma]] on November 29, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Rivera|first1=Joshua|title=Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate Mark Strand Dead at 80|url=https://time.com/3610776/poet-laureate-mark-strand-obit/|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=30 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mark Strand, former US poet laureate, dies aged 80|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/30/mark-strand-poet-laureate-us-dies-aged-80|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=3 December 2014|date=30 November 2014}}</ref>