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Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet, he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis and a member of the California Arts Council.
BornMay 8, 1930, San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationPoet, essayist, travel writer, translator, educator
Alma materReed College
Period1950–present
Literary movementSan Francisco Renaissance, Beat Generation
Notable worksTurtle Island, 1974, The Real Work, 1980, A Place in Space, 1995, Mountains and Rivers Without End, 1996
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for poetry, 1975, American Book Award, 1984, Bollingen Prize for Poetry, 1997, John Hay Award for Nature Writing, 1997, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 2008

About Gary Snyder

Poet Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930 in California, United States (He's 93 years old now).

Poet and author who won the Pulitzer Prize and was a member of the Beat Generation. Turtle Island, A Place in Space, and Mountains and Rivers Without End are among his best-known works.

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Gary Snyder before becoming famous

Gary Snyder was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1930 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Horse (馬).

He went to the University of California, Berkeley, and Indiana University.

Achievement of Gary Snyder

In the documentary film The Practice of the Wild, he was featured.

Gary Snyder's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He grew up in California, Washington, and Oregon during the Great Depression. In 1950, he married Alison Gass.

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He was the idea for the character Japhy in Novelist Jack Kerouac's renowned novel The Dharma Bums.

Gary Snyder Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Gary Snyder updated on March 11 2023.