Biography

Elizabeth Bishop was born on February 8, 1911, in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was an American poet and short story writer. From 1949 to 1950 she was the Poet Laureatte of the United States. In 1956 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and in 1970 she won the National Book Award. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 6, 1979.
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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, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, and Theodore Roethke. The price of each stamp on day of issue was 45¢.