Poet, dramatist, librettist, and essayist W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden was born February 21, 1907 in York, England. He became an American citizen in May 1946. In 1948, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Age of Anxiety.
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Two letters handwritten by poet W. H. Auden to Reed Whittemore are dated June 13, 1970, and May 15, 1972. Auden writes to decline to review books suggested by Whittemore and states his fee for readings.