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Stanley Kunitz (Stanley Jasspon Kunitz) was born on 29 July, 1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American poet (1905–2006). Discover Stanley Kunitz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 100 years old?

Popular As Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
Occupation Poet
Age 100 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 29 July 1905
Birthday 29 July
Birthplace Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 14 May, 2006
Died Place New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1890

Kunitz and his two older sisters, Sarah and Sophia, were raised by his mother, who had made her way from Yashwen, Kovno, Lithuania by herself in 1890, and opened a dry goods store.

1905

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was an American poet.

1912

Yetta remarried Mark Dine in 1912.

Yetta and Mark filed for bankruptcy in 1912 and then were indicted by the U.S. District Court for concealing assets.

They pleaded guilty and turned over USD$10,500 to the trustees.

Mark Dine died when Kunitz was fourteen, when, while hanging curtains, he suffered a heart attack.

At fifteen, Kunitz moved out of the house and became a butcher's assistant.

Later he got a job as a cub reporter on The Worcester Telegram, where he would continue working during his summer vacations from college.

1926

Kunitz graduated summa cum laude in 1926 from Harvard College with an English major and a philosophy minor, and then earned a master's degree in English from Harvard the following year.

He wanted to continue his studies for a doctorate degree, but was told by the university that the Anglo-Saxon students would not like to be taught by a Jew.

After Harvard, he worked as a reporter for The Worcester Telegram, and as editor for the H. W. Wilson Company in New York City.

He then founded and edited Wilson Library Bulletin and started the Author Biographical Studies.

1930

Kunitz married Helen Pearce in 1930; they divorced in 1937.

1931

In 1931, as Dilly Tante, he edited Living Authors, a Book of Biographies.

His poems began to appear in Poetry, Commonweal, The New Republic, The Nation, and The Dial.

1935

In 1935 he moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania and befriended Theodore Roethke.

1939

He married Eleanor Evans in 1939; they had a daughter Gretchen in 1950.

1943

During World War II, he was drafted into the Army in 1943 as a conscientious objector, and after undergoing basic training three times, served as a noncombatant at Gravely Point, Washington in the Air Transport Command in charge of information and education.

He refused a commission and was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant.

1946

After the war, he began a peripatetic teaching career at Bennington College (1946–1949), taking over from Roethke.

1949

He subsequently taught at the State University of New York at Potsdam (then the New York State Teachers College at Potsdam) as a full professor (1949–1950; summer sessions through 1954), the New School for Social Research (lecturer; 1950-1957), the University of Washington (visiting professor; 1955-1956), Queens College (visiting professor; 1956–1957), Brandeis University (poet-in-residence; 1958-1959) and Columbia University (lecturer in the School of General Studies; 1963–1966) before spending 18 years as an adjunct professor of writing at Columbia's School of the Arts (1967–1985).

1958

Kunitz divorced Eleanor in 1958.

At Wilson Company, Kunitz served as co-editor for Twentieth Century Authors, among other reference works.

After his divorce from Eleanor, he married the painter and poet Elise Asher in 1958.

His marriage to Asher led to friendships with artists like Philip Guston and Mark Rothko.

Kunitz's poetry won wide praise for its profundity and quality.

1970

Throughout this period, he also held visiting appointments at Yale University (1970), Rutgers University–Camden (1974), Princeton University (1978) and Vassar College (1981).

1974

He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.

Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children, to Yetta Helen (née Jasspon) and Solomon Z. Kunitz, both of Jewish Russian Lithuanian descent.

His father, a dressmaker of Russian Jewish heritage, committed suicide in a public park six weeks before Stanley was born.

After going bankrupt, he went to Elm Park in Worcester, and drank carbolic acid.

Carbolic Acid is extremely dangerous; however, it gives a delayed death.

His mother removed every trace of Kunitz's father from the household.

The death of his father would be a powerful influence of his life.

1987

He was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1987 to 1989.

2005

He continued to write and publish until his centenary year, as late as 2005.

Many consider that his poetry's symbolism is influenced significantly by the work of Carl Jung.

Kunitz influenced many 20th-century poets, including James Wright, Mark Doty, Louise Glück, Joan Hutton Landis, and Carolyn Kizer.

For most of his life, Kunitz divided his time between New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

He enjoyed gardening and maintained one of the most impressive seaside gardens in Provincetown.