Sharon Olds
Poet
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco, California, United States on November 19th, 1942 and is the Poet. At the age of 81, Sharon Olds biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
Date of Birth
November 19, 1942
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, United States
Age
81 years old
Zodiac Sign
Scorpio
Profession
Feminist, Poet, Writer
Sharon Olds Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color
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Sharon Olds Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
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Education
Stanford (1964, BA), Columbia (1972, Ph.D.)
Sharon Olds Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
David Douglas Olds (married 1969–1997)
Children
2
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Sharon Olds Awards
- 1978 Creative Artists Public Service Grant
- 1978 Madeline Sadin Award, New York Quarterly
- 1979 Younger Poets Award, Poetry Miscellany
- 1980 Satan Says inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award.
- 1981–1982 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- 1982–1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1983 The Dead and the Living Lamont Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- 1992 The Father, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award.
- 1993–1996 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers Award
- 1998–2000 New York State Poet Laureate
- 2002 Academy of American Poets Fellowship
- 2002 The Unswept Room, Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
- 2003 Judge, Griffin Poetry Prize; for "distinguished poetic achievement at mid-career"
- 2004 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awards
- 2004 Became member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2006–2012 Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
- 2009 One Secret Thing, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize
- 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize, Stag's Leap
- 2012 Stag's Leap, named as one of "Oprah's Favorite Reads of 2012"
- 2013 Pulitzer Prize, Stag's Leap
- 2014 Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry
- 2015 Elected to become a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (to be inducted mid-May 2015)
- 2016 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets
- 2020 Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, Arias