Richard Wilbur

American poet and literary translator, born March 1, 1921 in New York City, New York, USA, died October 14, 2017 in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. He was educated at Amherst College and Harvard. He graduated from Amherst College in 1942 and then served in the US Army from 1943 until 1945 during World War II. After the Army and graduate school at Harvard University, Wilbur taught at Wesleyan University for two decades and at Smith College for another decade. He is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.