Wild Iris, The

Louise Glü ck (1943-2023)  was the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards included the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for  The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for  Faithful and Virtuous Night, the National Book Critics Circle Award for  The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for  Poems 1962– 2012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.