An overview of the childhood and early education of Louise Glück, highlighting the experiences that shaped the journey.
Louise Glück (1943-2023) was a highly acclaimed American poet and essayist, celebrated for her profound exploration of individual experience through an "unmistakable poetic voice". She was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, in addition to the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. Glück also served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004, solidifying her legacy as a major figure in contemporary poetry.
In December 1900, Louise Glück's paternal grandparents, Terézia (née Moskovitz) and Henrik Glück, emigrated from Hungary to the United States.
In 1901, the Nobel Prize was founded. Louise Glück would become the sixteenth female laureate since the prize was founded, in October 2020.
On April 22, 1943, Louise Elisabeth Glück was born. She would later become a celebrated American poet and essayist.
In 1961, Louise Glück graduated from George W. Hewlett High School and was taken out of school to focus on her rehabilitation and psychoanalytic treatment.
In 1963, Louise Glück enrolled in poetry workshops at Columbia University's School of General Studies, where she studied with Léonie Adams and Stanley Kunitz.
In 1966, Louise Glück concluded her participation in poetry workshops at Columbia University's School of General Studies.
In 1967, Louise Glück married Charles Hertz Jr.
In 1973, Louise Glück gave birth to a son, Noah, with her partner, Keith Monley.
In 1977, Louise Glück married John Dranow, an author who had started the summer writing program at Goddard College.
In 1984, Louise Glück joined the faculty of Williams College in Massachusetts as a senior lecturer in the English Department.
In 1990, Louise Glück published Ararat, a collection of poems prompted by the loss of her father.
In 1995, Louise Glück's younger sister, Tereze, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award for her book, May You Live in Interesting Times.
In 1996, Louise Glück's marriage to John Dranow ended in divorce. Also in 1996, she published Meadowlands, a collection of poetry about love and the deterioration of a marriage.
On September 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks occurred, which later influenced Louise Glück's work, October.
In 2018, Louise Glück's younger sister, Tereze, passed away.
In 2023, Louise Glück was appointed a professor of English at Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program.
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