Josephine Jacobsen (1908-2003)
MSA SC 3520-13614
Biography:
Born August 19, 1908, in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. Daughter of Joseph Edward and Octavia (Winder) Boylan. Studied under private tutors. Attended Roland Park Country School, Baltimore, Maryland, 1926. Married Eric Jacobsen, March 17, 1932; one son, Erlend. Died July 9, 2003, in Cockeysville, Maryland.
Poet and writer. Josephine Jacobsen published her first poem at the young age of 10. In 1971, the Library of Congress appointed her as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, predecessor of the U.S. Poet Laureate, a position she held until 1973. Ms. Jacobsen has received honorary degrees from numerous institutions, including the Johns Hopkins University, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Towson University and St. Mary's Seminary and University. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Shelley Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry, and the Lenore Marshall prize. In 1994, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has been nominated three times for the National Book Award.
Ms. Jacobsen's works include: Let Each Man Remember (1943), For
the Unlost (1946), The Human Climate: New Poems (1953), The
Testament of Samuel Beckett (1964), The Animal Inside (1966),
Ionesco and Genet: The Playwrights of Silence (1968), The Shade-Seller:
New and Selected Poems (1974), One Poet's Poetry (1975),
A Walk with Raschid, and Other Stories (1978), The Chinese Isomniacs:
New Poems (1981), Adios, Mr. Moxley: Thirteen Stories (1986),
Substance of Things Hoped For (1987), The Sisters: New and Selected
Poems (1987), On the Island: New & Selected Stories (1989),
Distances (1992), Collected Poems (1995), In the Crevice
of time: New and Collected Poems (1995), and What Goes Without Saying:
Collected Stories of Josephine Jacobsen (1996).
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