Nemerov, Howard (nĕm`ĕrôf), 1920–91, American poet, novelist, and critic, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1941; brother of photographer Diane Arbus Arbus, Diane (är`bəs), 1923–71, American photographer, b. New York City.
..... Click the link for more information. . He taught at Bennington College for many years and was associated with Washington Univ. in St. Louis from 1969 until his death. Nemerov's witty and often gloomy poetry ranges in tone from light to deeply philosophical; collections include The Image and the Law (1947), The Next Room of the Dream (1964), Collected Poems (1977; Pulitzer Prize), By Al Lebowitz's Pool (1979), Inside the Onion (1984), and War Stories (1987). He was poet laureate of the United States (1988–90). His fiction deals largely with moral dilemmas, as in The Melodramatists (1949).

Bibliography

See his Selected Poems (2003), ed. by D. Anderson; studies by B. Duncan, ed. (1971) and J. Bartholomay (1972).

Nemerov, Howard

(born March 1, 1920, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died July 5, 1991, University City, near St. Louis, Mo.) U.S. poet. He attended Harvard University and served as a pilot in World War II before teaching at various colleges, including Bennington. His verse, marked by irony and self-deprecatory wit, is often about nature; it appears in several volumes beginning with The Image and the Law (1947) and including Collected Poems (1977, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award). His fiction includes The Homecoming Game (1957) and A Commodity of Dreams and Other Stories (1960). He was poet laureate of the U.S. (1988–90). His sister Diane Arbus was a notable photographer.

Nemerov, Howard (Stanley) (1920–91) poet, writer; born in New York City. He studied at Harvard (B.A. 1941), and taught at many institutions such as Bennington (1948–66) and, beginning in 1967, Washington University, St. Louis. He was named Consultant in Poetry (1963–64) and Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress (1988), and is known for his literary prose works and blank verse, as in Collected Poems (1977).