Charles Wright (poet)
Charles Wright is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the 20th Poet Laureate of the United States.
25 August 1935
Born on the same birth day (25 August): Blake Lively • Christian LeBlanc • Debbie Graham • Joanne Whalley • Keith Tippett • Michael Kaluta • Petria Thomas • Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg • Ruth Ann Swenson • Taslima Nasrin • Walt Kelly
Born in the same month (August 1935): Alexandra Bellow • Andreas Stamatiadis • Annie Proulx • August 31 • Bobby Richardson • Bryan Organ • Donald P. Bellisario • Ernie Broglio • Fortunato Baldelli • Frank Yablans • Georgy Shonin • Geraldine Ferraro • Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt • John Brodie • John Laws • Karen Spärck Jones • Mudcat Grant • Octavio Getino • Peter Inge, Baron Inge • Rahsaan Roland Kirk • Roy Strong • Régine Deforges • Sonny Shroyer • Vic Vogel