[1] American Culture's Debt to Gay Sons of Harvard (Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, 29th May 2003.) See also The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality and the Shaping of American Culture (2003), by Douglass Shand-Tucci.
Father: Chester F. Ashbery (farmer)
Mother: Helen Lawrence (biology teacher)
Brother: (younger, d. leukemia age 9)
Husband: David Kermani (until his death)
High School: Deerfield Academy
University: Harvard University (1949)
University: MA English, Columbia University (1951)
Newsweek Art Critic (1960's)
ARTnews Executive Editor (1965-72)
Partisan Review Poetry Editor (1976-80)
The New York Herald Tribune Art Critic, Euro Edition (1960-65)
Fulbright
MacArthur Fellowship 1985
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1976 for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
National Book Award for Poetry 1976 for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1985 for A Wave
Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for Poetry 1992
Poetry Society of America
Author of books:
Turandot and Other Poems (1953, poetry)
Some Trees (1956, poetry)
Three Poems (1957, poetry)
The Poems (1960, poetry)
The Tennis Court Oath (1962, poetry)
Rivers and Mountains (1966, poetry)
Sunrise in Suburbia (1968, poetry)
A Nest of Ninnies (1969, novel, with James Schuyler)
The Double Dream of Spring (1970, poetry)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975, poetry)
A Wave (1984, poetry)
Flow Chart (1991, poetry)
Your Name Here (2000, poetry)
As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001, poetry)
Chinese Whispers: Poems (2002, poetry)
AKA John Lawrence Ashbery