Henry S. Taylor

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rdf:langString Henry Splawn Taylor (born June 21, 1942) is an American poet, author of more than 15 books of poems, translation, and nonfiction, and winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Taylor was born in Lincoln, Virginia, in rural Loudoun County, where he was raised as a Quaker. He went to high school at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1965 and received his M.A. from Hollins University (formerly Hollins College) in 1966. He taught literature and co-directed the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at American University from 1971–2003. Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986 for his book The Flying Change. His additional honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. Since 2015 he and his wife, fiber artist Mooshe Taylor, have lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico.