Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern is the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award for This Time; the Lamont Prize; fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He taught at many universities, including Columbia University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Pittsburgh. Until his retirement in 1995 Stern taught at the Writers' Workshop in Iowa City. He now lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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