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Poets > Jack Gilbert
Born: 1925-02-18, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died: 2012-11-13, Berkeley, California
Status: Included
Lyric poet, raised in East Liberty. His first book, Views of Jeopardy (1962), won the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
| When | Kind | What |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Born | Born in Pittsburgh.[1][2] |
| childhood | Raised | Raised in East Liberty and attended Peabody High School.[1][2] |
| n.d. | Worked | Worked as a door-to-door salesman, an exterminator and a steelworker.[2] |
| to 1954 | Studied | Studied at the University of Pittsburgh.[1] |
Gilbert was born, raised, schooled and employed in Pittsburgh. He later lived in San Francisco, Europe and New England, but he returned to Pittsburgh as a subject. A selection of his Pittsburgh poems appeared as Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh (Pond Road Press, 2006).