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): Arpad Elo • Carlo Acton • Damon Jones • Darrell Johnson • Deanna Nolan • Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque • Frederick Chapman Robbins • Marshall Brickman • Martin Amis • Nathan Page • Olga Konkova • Ricardo Rodriguez (footballer) • Ruth Ann Swenson • Sean Connery • Seán T. O'Kelly • Takeshi Okada

Born in the same month (August 1935): Annie Proulx • Donald P. Bellisario • Geraldine Ferraro • John Laws • John Phillips (musician) • Michael Holroyd • Sonny Shroyer