Which American author was chosen as the Nobel laureate in October 1976?
Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i litteratur" ) has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning"). Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, here "work" refers to an author's work as a whole. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year. The academy announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Tracy K. Smith Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume "Life on Mars". About this collection, Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition...As all the best poetry does, "Life on Mars" first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled." In June 2017, she was selected as the next United States Poet Laureate, to begin her term in the fall.