Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.
23 December 1926
Born on the same birth date (23 December 1926): Harold Dorman
Born on the same birth day (23 December): Anna Maria Perez de Tagle • Anthony Mary Claret • Brad Lidge • Geoffrey Wheatcroft • James M. Canty • Micheline Ostermeyer • Noella Leduc • Otis Grant • Otto Soglow • Sekou Doumbouya
Born in the same month (December 1926): Allyn Ann McLerie • Antonia Brenner • Arnošt Lustig • Bill Pitt (racing driver) • Billy Snedden • Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner • Earle Brown • Guitar Slim • Jeffrey Stone • Keith Michell • Otto Graf Lambsdorff • Ray Jablonski • Robert Symonds • Valerie Pearl