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- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Wallace Stevens was born on October 2, 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Thirteen Ways... (2001) and The Emperor of Ice Cream (2015). He was married to Elsie Viola Kachel. He died on August 2, 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- SpouseElsie Viola Kachel(1909 - August 2, 1955) (his death, 1 child)
- American poet, who worked for most of his life as an insurance salesman.
- Pictured on one of ten USA nondenominated commemorative postage stamps celebrating "20th Century Poets", issued as a pane of 20 stamps on 21 April 2012. Other stamps in this issued honored Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, E.E. Cummings, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, and Theodore Roethke. The price of each stamp on day of issue was 45¢.
- Started writing at the age of 38.
- What counted was mythology of self, blotched out beyond blotching.
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