| Conrad Aiken  AKA Conrad Potter Aiken
Born: 5-Aug-1889
Birthplace: Savannah, GA
Died: 17-Aug-1973
Location of death: Savannah, GA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, GA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Earth Triumphant Father: (physician, d. 1900 suicide)
Mother: (d. 1900 murdered by father)
Wife: Jessie McDonald (m. 25-Aug-1912, div. 1930)
Daughter: Joan Aiken (juvenile novelist, b. 4-Sep-1924, d. 4-Jan-2004)
Son: John Aiken
Wife: Clarissa M. Lorenz (m. 1930, div. 1937)
Wife: Mary Hoover (m. 7-Jul-1937, until his death)
University: Harvard University (1912)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1930 for Selected Poems
National Book Award for Poetry 1954 for Collected Poems
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1956
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Is the subject of books:
Aiken: A Life of His Art, 1962, BY: Jay Martin
Aiken: A Bibliography (1902-1978), 1982, BY: F.W. and F.C. Bonnell
Lorelei Two: My Life with Aiken, 1983, BY: Clarissa M. Lorenz
Author of books:
Earth Triumphant (1914, poetry)
The Charnel Rose (1918, poetry)
Skepticisms (1919, essays)
The House of Dust: A Symphony (1920)
Bring! Bring! (1925, short stories)
Blue Voyage (1927, novel)
Selected Poems (1929, poetry)
King Coffin (1924, novel)
And in the Hanging Gardens (1933, poetry)
Among the Lost People (1934, short stories)
Conversation; or, Pilgrim's Progress (1940)
The Soldier (1944)
The Kid (1947)
Ushant (1952, memoir)
Collected Poems (1953, poetry)
A Reviewer's ABC (1958, essays)
The Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken (1978, letters)
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