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Carolyn Kizer (Carolyn Ashley Kizer) was born on 10 December, 1925 in Spokane, Washington, U.S., is an American writer (1925-2014). Discover Carolyn Kizer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As Carolyn Ashley Kizer
Occupation Poet
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 10 December 1925
Birthday 10 December
Birthplace Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Date of death 9 October, 2014
Died Place Sonoma, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Who Is Carolyn Kizer's Husband?

Her husband is Charles Stimson Bullitt (1946–1954, divorced) John Marshall Woodbridge

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Children 3 (including Jill Bullitt)

Carolyn Kizer Net Worth

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1878

Her father, Benjamin Hamilton Kizer (1878–1978), who was 45 when she was born, was a successful attorney.

Her mother, Mabel Ashley Kizer, was a professor of biology who had received her doctorate from Stanford University.

Kizer was once asked if she agreed with a description of her father as someone who "came across as supremely structured, intelligent, polite but always somewhat remote".

Her reply: "Add 'authoritarian and severe', and you get a pretty good approximation of how he appeared to that stranger, his child".

1925

Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.

1945

After graduating from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, she went on to get her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College (where she studied comparative mythologies with Joseph Campbell) in 1945 and study as a graduate at both Columbia University (1945–46) and the University of Washington (1946–47).

1946

She then moved back to Washington state, and in 1946 married Charles Stimson Bullitt, an attorney from a wealthy and influential Seattle family, with whom she had three children; Fred Nemo, Jill Bullitt, and Ashley Bullitt.

Her husband was the son of Dorothy Bullitt, who founded the Bullitt Foundation and the King Broadcasting Company.

1950

At times, she related, her father gave her the same "Viscera-shriveling" voice she heard him use later on "members of the House Un-American Activities Committee and other villains of the 1950s, to even more devastating effect", and, she added, "I almost forgave him."

1954

In 1954 she enrolled in a creative writing workshop run by poet Theodore Roethke.

"Kizer had three small kids, a big house on North Capitol Hill, enough money to get by and more than enough talent and determination. And although one of her poems had been published in The New Yorker when she was 17, she remembers that she needed a nudge from Roethke to get serious."

Her marriage to Bullitt ended in divorce in 1954.

1959

In 1959, she helped found Poetry Northwest and served as its editor until 1965.

1965

She was a "Specialist in Literature" for the U.S. State Department in Pakistan 1965–1966, during which she taught for several months in that country.

1966

In 1966, she became the first director of Literary Programs for the newly created National Endowment for the Arts.

1970

She resigned that post in 1970, when the N.E.A. chairman, Roger L. Stevens, was fired by President Richard Nixon.

She was a consultant to the N.E.A. for the following year.

In the 1970s and 1980s, she held appointments as poet-in-residence or lecturer at universities across the country including Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, San Jose State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She has been a visiting writer at literary conferences and events across the country, as well as in Dublin, Ireland, and Paris.

Kizer was also a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

1985

She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

According to an article at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, "Kizer reach[ed] into mythology in poems like Semele Recycled; into politics, into feminism, especially in her series of poems called "Pro Femina"; into science, the natural world, music, and translations and commentaries on Japanese and Chinese literatures".

Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of a socially prominent Spokane couple.

1995

She was appointed to the post of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1995, but resigned three years later to protest the absence of women and minorities on the governing board.

Kizer was married to the architect-historian, John Marshall Woodbridge.

When she was not teaching and lecturing, she divided her time between their home in Sonoma, California, and their apartment in Paris.

2014

She died on October 9, 2014, in Sonoma, California, due to effects of dementia.