Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
בישופ, אליזבת, 1911-1979
Name (Latin)
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979
Other forms of name
בישופ, אליזבת
Date of birth
1911
Date of death
1979
Place of birth
Worcester (Mass.)
Place of death
Boston (Mass.)
Field of activity
Prose poems
Translating and interpreting
Occupation
Poets
Translators
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 71405503
Wikidata: Q235946
Library of congress: n 79047629
Sources of Information
  • Contemporary authors on Infotrac, July 16, 2007(Elizabeth Bishop; b. Feb. 8, 1911, Worcester, MA, d. Oct. 6, 1979, Boston, MA; poet, author of prose, and translator)
  • Flores raras e banalíssimas, 1995:t.p. (Elizabeth Bishop) t.p. verso (Braz. CIP: 1911-1979) p. 42 (b. 1910)
  • LAC internal file, August 1, 2019(access point: Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979)
  • NUCMC data from Texas Woman's Univ. Libr. for Boyd, D. Papers, 1979-1981(Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979)
  • New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925), 8 Dec. 2025:in an article entitled "Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop's 'At the Fishhouses'" ([Elizabeth] Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911; after her father's death, that same year, she was taken to her mother's family in Nova Scotia; returned to Massachusetts in 1918; spent most of her adult life as an expatriate, in Brazil. Not a prolific poet, Bishop wrote, or considered finished, a hundred scrupulously revised poems; many of her finest appeared in this magazine)
  • North & south, 1946.
  • The collected prose, 1984:t.p. (Elizaeth Bishop) jkt. (1911-1979)
  • LCN
  • קיצור קורות חיים בספרה מעל האבנים מעל העולם.